TY - JOUR
T1 - Caring for military children in the emergency department
T2 - The essentials
AU - Ling, Catherine
AU - Johnson, Heather
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The life of a military child has several challenges that can provide opportunities for resilience or risk for vulnerability. Nurses in emergent/urgent care may encounter military children when they are in a stressful transition such as during a move or deployment. Understanding the unique lifestyle of military children and implementing some key suggestions for practice can improve outcomes for this population. This article highlights the exceptional context of military children, military transitions, and opportunities to recognize families who are at risk and strategies to reach out using the I CARE (identify, correlate, ask, ready resources, and encourage) framework.
AB - The life of a military child has several challenges that can provide opportunities for resilience or risk for vulnerability. Nurses in emergent/urgent care may encounter military children when they are in a stressful transition such as during a move or deployment. Understanding the unique lifestyle of military children and implementing some key suggestions for practice can improve outcomes for this population. This article highlights the exceptional context of military children, military transitions, and opportunities to recognize families who are at risk and strategies to reach out using the I CARE (identify, correlate, ask, ready resources, and encourage) framework.
KW - Health care
KW - Military children
KW - Military families
KW - Psychosocial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887186036&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jen.2013.08.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jen.2013.08.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 24094735
AN - SCOPUS:84887186036
SN - 0099-1767
VL - 39
SP - 647
EP - 651
JO - Journal of Emergency Nursing
JF - Journal of Emergency Nursing
IS - 6
ER -