Pediatric Patients: Tips on How to Deal with Them
Pediatric patients have unique needs compared to adult patients. With a wide age range, from newborn to 18 years old, Pediatric nurses have to be creative in dealing with kids. Read on below for some tricks of the trade that I have learned during my 15 years of Neonatal and Pediatric nursing practice. Why Pediatrics? Working in a Pediatric and Pediatric Intensive Care unit was no small feat, especially coming from a geriatrics and Medical-Surgical/Oncology background. I had shifts wherein…