| A Team Approach to the Prevention of Infant Abduction | ||
| Marci LaBossiere, MSN, RN, U.S. Navy., 8195 Torrey Gardens Place, San Diego, CA 92129 and Jeanne Jimenez, RN, MSN, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA 92134 Joint Commission has recognized that creating a safe environment, for our youngest beneficiaries, involves more than just making sure that security mechanisms and equipment are available, operational, and used as intended. Prevention of infant abduction requires building a culture to prevent infant abductions through communication, and team coordination (Joint Commission, 2007). The Infant Security Working group at Naval Medical Center San Diego designed the innovative Code Pink Response: A Team Approach to the Prevention of Infant Abduction as a process improvement initiative. The Code Pink Response was designed to provide an organizational plan for the prevention of and response to infant abduction. The Code Pink Response initiative established a multi-disciplinary working group to identify strategies to strengthen the command’s response to the prevention of infant abduction. | ||