Pediatrics
Bronchiolitis, febrile infants, dosing safety, and family-centered care.
10 articles
Bronchiolitis Care: What Bedside Nurses Need to Know
Most bronchiolitis care is supportive nursing work: serial respiratory assessment, hydration, gentle airway clearance, and timely escalation. Here is what the bedside nurse needs to prioritize, document, and teach.
Febrile Infant Assessment and Parent Communication
A bedside guide to assessing well-appearing febrile infants 8 to 60 days old: defining fever, recognizing when appearance cannot be trusted, anticipating the AAP age-based workup, and communicating clearly with anxious parents.
Asthma Education for Children and Families
A practical, nursing-first guide to teaching children and families about asthma: anchoring care to the written action plan, sorting symptoms by zone, verifying inhaler and spacer technique, reducing triggers, and documenting teach-back.
Newborn Jaundice Teaching After the 2022 AAP Update
The 2022 AAP guideline revision raised phototherapy and exchange thresholds and reinforced universal predischarge bilirubin screening. Here is how nurses screen, escalate, and teach families about newborn jaundice under the updated framework.
Oral Rehydration Therapy for Children With Gastroenteritis
A bedside nursing guide to oral rehydration therapy for children with acute gastroenteritis, covering dehydration assessment, low-osmolarity ORS dosing in two phases, managing vomiting and escalation, early refeeding, and family teaching.
Pediatric Pain Assessment That Matches Development
Choosing a pain tool that fits a child's developmental stage, not just their age, is what makes pediatric pain visible and treatable. A practical guide to self-report, faces and numeric scales, and behavioral observation for nonverbal children.
Comfort Measures That Reduce Pediatric Procedure Distress
Comfort positioning, preparation, and matched distraction, applied together as a multimodal bundle, reduce pediatric procedure pain and distress. Here is how nurses plan, deliver, monitor, and document them at the bedside.
Family-Centered Care During Pediatric Admissions
Family-centered care makes parents and caregivers partners during a child's hospital stay. This guide covers how nurses run family-centered rounds, bedside handoff, communication, caregiver support, and child safety from admission to discharge.
Safe Medication Dosing Habits in Pediatric Nursing
Pediatric doses are calculated from weight and concentration, so small input errors can become large overdoses. These repeatable nursing habits, from kilogram-only weights to targeted double checks, catch slips before a drug reaches the child.
Vaccination Conversations With Parents Using Health Literacy Principles
A practical nursing guide to vaccine conversations with parents: assess hesitancy, open presumptively, use plain language and teach-back, frame benefits respectfully, and keep the door open when a family declines.