Communication

PEDIATRIC NUrsing

"Pediatric nursing is the practice of nursing involved in the health care of children from infancy through adolescence"

kYLE & CARMAN (2025)

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Family centered care

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Atraumatic care

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Evidence Based Practice

FAMILY CENTERED CARE

• Family is the support system

• Partnership between the child, family and health care professionals

ATRAUMATIC cARE

• Do no harm

• Interventions can be traumatic, painful, and stressful

• Word choice is important

evidence based PRACTICE

• Use of research findings to establish plan of care and implement that care.

• Use of clinical decision making
• Use of nursing process

CONSENT

Mature Minor Emanicipated Minor Assent

ETHICS

COMMUNICATION

NONVERBAL

verbal

TECHNIQUES

• Age appropriate methods
• Allow warm up period
• Eye level
• Incorporate play
• Stories
• Privacy

• Use of body language, active listening from the start of interaction
• Active listening indicate fears or concerns

• Use of words, written or spoken
• Avoid jargon

Age Groups

Preschool, School Age

Infancy, Toddler

Adolescence

Basic needs

RESPECT

Involvement

• Communicate through senses
• Cuddle, hold, rock, sing
• Allow time to respond

• Experience strong feelings and emotions and perceived situations in extreme terms
• Build trust

• Allow time to complete thoughts
• Interested in learning be honest and straighforward
• Improve language skills

Age Groups

Infancy, Toddler

Toddler,Preschool, School Age

Adolescence

Communication

Involvement

RESPECT

• Coos, simple vowels, laughs, raspberies, babble without meaning, immitate speech, meaning
• Stranger anxiety, separation anxiety

• Colloquial speech
• Language comparable to adults
• Consent: emancipated minor, mature minor, assent

• Short sentences
• Echolalia/Telegraphic
• Trial and error/Imagination/Animism

• Ask why, apply learned concepts, understand double meaning