DNP 825 Identify a population-based problem of interest you see in your community and identify relevant outcomes you would like to see from mitigating the scope and effects of this problem Re: Topic 1 DQ 1

Many hospital emergency department experience huge surge of children and the elderly with respiratory distress due to COVID 19. In many instance these condition becomes life threatening to these children. To adequately treat this major health concern, it is very imperative for the healthcare providers to make quick assessment to determine the severity of the condition (Carroll & Lenney).Some of the effective procedure for proper management of COVID in children include developing treatment protocols, complete pediatric assessment measure, effective discharge care action plan and follow up with the recommendation of inhaled corticosteroids to reduce chronic morbidity.

References

Carroll W., Lenney W. (2007).Drug therapy in the management of acute asthma. ArchDisChildEducPractEd. Jun; 92(3):ep82-6.

Larcher, V., Dittborn, M., Linthicum, J., Sutton, A., Brierley, J., Payne, C., Hardy, H., & GOSH Young People’s Forum (2020). Young people’s views on their role in the COVID-19 pandemic and society’s recovery from it. Archives of disease in childhood, 105(12), 1192–1196. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320040