91 Can ‘Pop-Up’ Style Simulation Teaching Improve The Care That Our Children and Young People’s Emergency Department Team Provide for Children Presenting with Fever?

Abstract

We wanted to use simulation teaching to improve our multi-disciplinary team’s (MDT) management of children who presented to our Children and Young People’s ED (CYPED) with fever.The aims of the study were: first, to use simulation teaching to train the MDT in our CYPED, to improve the care delivered to children presenting with fever, measured as an improvement in our compliance with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) standards For cycle one of our audits, we looked at a sample of 136 children who presented to our CYPED with fever; 61 patients met the inclusion criteria and were included. To improve compliance to the RCEM standards Staff’s self-rated knowledge of the RCEM standards ‘Pop-up’ style simulation teaching can be used to improve the care that we offer our patients, as reflected by an improvement in staff’s confidence and in the department’s compliance with RCEM standards