Controlling and Preventing Errors in Nursing Care of Pediatric Patients

Kim Maryniak, PhD, RNC-NIC, NEA-BC has over 35 years of nursing experience in pediatrics, medical/surgical, psychiatry, pediatrics, progressive care, and adult and neonatal intensive care. She has been a staff nurse, charge nurse, educator, instructor, manager, director, and chief nursing officer, including over 14 years in pediatric and neonatal intensive care.Kim is certified in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing and as a Nurse Executive, Advanced. She achieved her Bachelor in Nursing at the Athabasca University, Alberta in 2000, her Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Phoenix in 2005, and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Phoenix in 2018.Kim is active in the American Nurses Association and the American Organization of Nurse Leaders. Her current and previous roles include nursing leadership, research utilization, nursing peer review and advancement, education, use of simulation, quality, process improvement, professional development, infection control, patient throughput, nursing operations, professional practice, and curriculum development.

• ·      Introduction.- Overview of common conditions in pediatric patients.- Predisposing and contributing factors for nursing errors.- Types of errors.- Consequences of nursing errors.- Monitoring for and detecting nursing errors.- Best practices to prevent nursing errors.- Recommendations for further study.- Summary.