Frontline Pediatric Readiness Tools
Case-based Scavenger Hunts
Case-based scavenger hunts are expected to take about 5 minutes, and allow your ED team to work through and discuss a pediatric clinical scenario.
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During a Case-based scavenger hunt you team will be asked to:
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FIND and TOUCH the equipment that might be needed
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Use your ED’s weight-based resources to identify the correct size equipment
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In some instances, you may be asked to identify if you have a specific policy or protocol in place related to the case and where to find it
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Get the details on running a Case-Based Scavenger Hunt Below​
Why
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Familiarizes teams with pediatric equipment location
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Reinforces weight-based equipment & medication choices
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Reinforces using your ED’s pediatric medication & equipment reference
Who
When
Where
Who should be present?
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Facilitator: Pediatric Education Care Coordinator or Pediatric Champion (physician or nurse)
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Provider Team (physician, nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, pharmacists) multidisciplinary is the goal
When should we do these scavenger hunts?
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Any time! We recommend a case a week or every 2 weeks to capture different shifts/team members
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Time Investment: 1 case, about 5 minutes
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Where should these take place?
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Your clinical space! The resuscitation room, peds room: wherever your team takes care of sick children.
Watch a team run a Case-based Scavenger Hunt: (video Link) Coming soon!
How
What you’ll need for all cases
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Your ED’s pediatric specific Medication and Equipment References
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Access to your pediatric equipment: cart, bag, etc.
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A multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, pharmacists (3-5 people)
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What to tell your Assembled Team
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A brief case will be provided.
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The patients age and weight will be provided.
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Please discuss what equipment and medications you want to have ready to care for this patient and why.
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As you talk through the case, FIND and TOUCH the right size equipment or medication you want (not just say it) based on the age and weight provided.
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Please keep equipment tidy!​
Facilitator Tips
Cases
All the equipment and medications in the National Pediatric Readiness Checklist are represented in this suite of 23 of case-based scavenger hunts.
Airway Foreign Body
Asthma
Behavioral Emergency
Blunt Trauma
Bronchiolitis
Cardiac Arrest
Cardiac Cases
DKA
Febrile Infant
Gastroenteritis/Hypoglycemia
Hypertension
Ingestion
​Neonate Cardiac
Newborn Delivery
Non-Accidental Trauma
Opioid Overdose
Painful Procedures
Pediatric Potpourri
Respiratory Failure
Respiratory Failure with RSI
Seizure
Sepsis
Severe TBI