Cape Cod Hospital

Ashlinn Hoffmeister
 Pediatric Nursing
● Provide health and medical care for children
from birth through their late teens.
● Involve the child and family in the plan of
care.
○ Address both the patient and the family’s concerns,
fears, problems, and options.
● Parents usually prefer pediatric specialists
because children’s bodies are always growing
and changing & react differently to injury,
medication, illness etc…
● Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOyfKmxIE4o

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Job Description According to the National Certification Board of
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses (NCBPNP/N)
1. Identify changes in a child’s signs and symptoms and intervene in emergent
situations
2. Maintain privacy and confidentiality in nurse/child relationships
3. Differentiate between normal and abnormal physical findings
4. Serve as a child advocate
5. Participate in activities to manage a child’s pain
6. Analyze situations to anticipate pathophysiological problems and detect changes in
status
7. Administer medication using age-appropriate guidelines
8. Determine a child’s needs related to pain management
9. Evaluate a child for signs and symptoms of abuse
10. Provide supportive care to dying children
What I did:
● Shadowed Pediatric nurses
● Spent time with children/babies who suffer from pneumonia, asthma, or
withdrawal symptoms
● Talked with parents about their experience staying in a hospital
● Watched nurses put an endotracheal tube in an infant (intubation)
● Observed nurses insert an IV in infant during an
Emergency.
-How they spoke to parents.
● Fed and held babies affected by substance abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eP5EnFSG0c

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What I Learned
● How to react quickly and calmly in situations
○ Calm, soft voices, foot placement, confidence
● How common drug addiction is
○ Patients I spent time with
○ How it affected the baby
● Importance of privacy between patients, families, and medical
professionals.
● Pediatric emergencies
○ IV
○ Intubation
○ PaedER
● The importance of communication
● Babies rely on human to human contact when they are first born.
○ Nurses fill in the place of the baby’s parent when they aren’t there
Leadership Applied
● Nurses are leaders
○ They succeed by helping others succeed.
○ Give credit to all that helped
○ Facilitate decisions
○ They set the direction for one specific
goal-help others
● Nurses work as a team, they update eachother
with the patient’s information.
● Understanding conflict/illness
○ Open up and clarify issues
○ Help to resolve problems and move
forward
○ Disclose new information and perspectives
○ Promote authentic and empathic
communication
● Nurses calmly deal with conflict
head on.
○ They engage in others
collaboration to find a solution
everyone can live with and
support.
○ They use the accommodation
style to maintain harmonious
relationships with the patient
and the parents.
● Communication (public speaking
skills)
○ They know their audience
○ They are confident with their
decisions