Worldwide Successful Pediatric Nurse-Led Models of Care

Cecily L. Betz, PhD, RN, FAAN is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, USA. Dr. Betz serves as the Nursing and Research Director of the USC UCEDD at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has extensive clinical research and policymaking experience in the field of health care transition, on which she published extensively. Dr. Betz has served as a consultant nationally and internationally. She is the Co-Chair of the International and Interdisciplinary Health Care Transition Research Consortium and served as the Chair of the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) Task Force that formulated the 2017 SPN position statement  entitled, Transition of Pediatric Patients into Adult Care. She recently co-edited with Dr. Imelda Coyne of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland the book 'Transition from Pediatric to Adult Healthcare Services for Young Adults with Long-term Conditions: An International Perspective on Nurses Roles and Interventions' (2020). She is the Founder and formerly the Editor-in-Chief of the 'Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families', the official journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society.  She served as one of the organizers and founding members of the Society of Pediatric Nursing, a national pediatric nursing association founded 30 years ago.

Nurse-led Models of Care for Infants, Children, Youth and Families: Introduction and Overview.- The Social-Ecological Theory of Child Development: A Framework For Nurse-Led Initiatives And Models of Care.- Baby Steps: Improving the Transition from Hospital to Home for Neonatal Patients and Caregivers through a Nurse-Led Telehealth Program.- Canadian Nurse Practitioner-Led Paediatric Rehabilitation Complex Care Program.- Leveraging a Professional Nursing Organization to Create an Anti-Trafficking Care Model.- Evolution of a complex and home care programme for children with chronic diseases.- Affirming and Empowering Kids: Creating an Independent and Comprehensive Gender-affirming Healthcare Center.- Caring for patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the pediatric intensive care setting.- Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care in Sickle Cell Disease.- The Sierra Leone National ETAT+ Programme: Delivering Nurse-Led Emergency Paediatric Care.- Interactional Model of Caring for Families of Children with Chronic Conditions.- From Patient Studies to a Hospital-Wide Initiative: A Mindfulness Journey.- Nurse-Led Service Models: Lessons Learned Over 25 Years.- A paediatric eczema shared care model.- Breatheasy: A Nurse-Led "Care Through Family" Service Model.- Leading a Nurse Practitioner-designed Newborn Circumcision Clinic.- Analysis of Nurse-Led Models Heath Care and Implications for Practice, Research, Education and Policymaking.