STN Webinar: Child Passenger Safety Screening in the Emergency Department
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Motor vehicle collisions remain a leading cause of death and injury in children in the United States. Our Level I trauma center found that 53% of children ages 1-19 years are improperly restrained or unrestrained. Our center employs a Pediatric Injury Prevention Coalition with nationally certified child passenger safety technicians who are active in the community yet remain underutilized in the clinical setting. Additionally, the activity will address how this research was completed to give participants an idea of how to complete research of their own.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the significance of motor vehicle collisions, and the lack of appropriate child passenger safety usage, on pediatric morbidity and mortality.
- Outline the methods used in the study, including pre-post design and the use of the Plan-Do-Study-Act model.
- Discuss barriers to implementing new practices in an academic tertiary care setting.
- Explain the statistically significant relationship between child passenger safety screening and getting children into age and size appropriate child safety seats.
- Translate lessons learned from the quality improvement project to trauma related projects of your own.
Continuing Education
Society of Trauma Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program has been awarded 1.0 hour of continuing nursing education.