This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

In this 4 part series focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies we will be taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.

Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host. She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network.

In this episode we will be examining Gun Violence Prevention with an Acute Care lens from the Emergency Department.  Specifically, we will be looking at gun safety as a suicide prevention strategy and how community outreach differs in the Emergency Department.  We will be talking with Kate Donches, Chief resident of the pediatric residency program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and life-long Philly native.