Pediatrics

🔊 Children in our Pediatric Unit are monitored very closely to assure their progress toward improved health. For that reason, vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure) are checked at a minimum of every four hours or more frequently as the child’s condition requires. It is possible that the child will be woken when these measurements are taken.

Baths are usually given in the morning and as the need arises.

Intake and output measurement is necessary to keep track of your child’s’ nutritional well-being and fluid balance.

When children are ill, medications are generally given via an intravenous (IV) line. This requires the insertion of a Teflon catheter into a vein by puncturing the skin. Since the veins are smaller and deeper on children, it often takes longer to insert the IV on children than on adults. Children’s veins are also often more delicate than adults’, and because of this, IV’s may need to be restarted while the child is hospitalized.

Special treatments or procedures will be carried out by the nurse at time intervals ordered by your physician, and when possible, care will be provided during the time the child is awake.