Distress in children attending A&E
Jackie Bentley Senior lecturer, University of Brighton, East Sussex
Practitioners need to be able to recognise the factors that contribute to children’s distress in A&E and develop skills to minimise their anxieties, says JACKIE BENTLEY
Attendance at A&E is a common childhood experience (Audit Commission 1996). Most children attend with minor injuries (Simmonds 1999) and several organ-isations have raised concerns about the distress such injuries and the treatment they require can cause (Action for Sick Children 1991, RCN 1998).
Emergency Nurse.
12, 4, 20-26.
doi: 10.7748/en2004.07.12.4.20.c1393
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