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Seven useful tips to nurses for administering medication to children
Working with children and treating the major and minor ailments is the responsibility of a pediatric nurse.
In addition to the expertise in the nursing profession, a pediatric nurse should shower a little extra love and affection in dealing with the children and their ailments.
The following tips can be of immense use for a pediatric nurse or a qualified certified nursing assistant in administering medication to children.
The first thing that you should do, as a nurse, is that you should not ask the child whether he or she will take medicine. Just take charge of the child and tell in a slightly commanding tone that it is time to take the medicine.
The second thing you can do is to consider giving an option of choice to the children, if and only when possible. It should not be case in all circumstances. For example, you can ask a child which of the medicines he or she wants to take first.
If the child being treated is an infant and needs to be fed with the nipple, then they should be treated accordingly.
For administering medication to infants, the pediatric nurse can use a syringe to administer the medication in liquid form. It has to be ensured that the liquid medicine is administered in small amounts into side of the mouth, and not pushed through the tongue. For this, the nurse should gently squeeze the cheek of the infant child and ensure that the child does not get hurt or feel pain.
It has to be ensured that the medication is not added to the routine formula of the infant food.
You should handle the infant with care and should not attempt to pinch the nose to close it while making the child swallow the medication by force. This might result in child gasping the medication through the airway and complicate the problem.
While administering injection as part of medication, ensure that the child is assistance by others by holding the child’s hand. Aware of the pain to the child, try to make it faster to administer injection.
By following these simple tips, the child will never treat you, the nurse, as a villain any more.
