Sally Snow is an independent consultant specializing in pediatric emergency and trauma nursing. Over her 50-year nursing career, she has held positions as the emergency department director and trauma program director at a free-standing children's hospital. She first became acquainted with the EMS for Children (EMSC) program in 1990 when she was invited to serve as a reviewer for HRSA’s EMSC grant programs. In 1993, she became one of the first 50 nurses in the U.S. to take and teach the Emergency Nurses Association’s (ENA) Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC).

 

From 2005 to 2017, Sally represented the ENA as a liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, where she was the nurse co-author of several policy statements, including the 2018 joint statement on Pediatric Readiness in the Emergency Department. She has been a member of the National Pediatric Readiness Project Steering Committee for over ten years and has served on the Emergency Nurses Association Board of Directors and the ENA Foundation Board of Trustees for a total of ten years.

 

Sally frequently speaks as a subject matter expert, addressing the new pediatric readiness standards implemented this year by the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, which require verified trauma centers to enhance pediatric readiness in their emergency departments. She also consults for the EMS for Children Texas: State Partnership as the Voluntary Pediatric Recognition Program Coordinator. Currently, she leads the Texas Pediatric Readiness Improvement Project, a collaboration with multiple organizations aimed at improving pediatric simulation and readiness strategies in Texas emergency departments to comply with the recent changes to the Texas Trauma Rules.