Children with acute musculoskeletal pain caused by traumatic injury often present to emergency departments (EDs). However, there is a tendency for practitioners to...
Child attendances to A&E departments account for 25-30 per cent of all attendances (Department of Health 1991) and a significant proportion of these are children...
Having undertaken the first FEN facilitator course, we were keen to begin implementing the competency framework in our workplace. We did so last November.
Emergency departments are notoriously busy clinical areas with increasing pressure from government health reforms (DoH 2001). In spite of these pressures, however,...