What the new Paediatric Early Warning Score means for nurses
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What the new Paediatric Early Warning Score means for nurses

Erin Dean Health journalist

The paediatric early warning system provides a standardised nursing approach for responding to seriously unwell children

The long-awaited national Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) to pick up deterioration in children has been published by NHS England and will now be rolled out to hospitals across the country.

Nursing Children and Young People. 36, 1, 8-10. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.36.1.8.s6

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