After-hours nursing care of an ill child living with diabetes

Children's Health established a nurse advice line (NAL) service to support community physicians in 2013. The endocrine providers approached this team requesting support in the after-hours setting to help manage children with diabetes. The goal was to decrease the burden on the on-call providers and improve the consistency of triage decisions. Schmitt Thompson's telephone triage guidelines were leveraged to build our institution-specific diabetes management guidelines, then embedded in EPIC for documentation.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research