Emotional Safety is Everyone’s Job

If a child is held down, the system has already failed. We often say emotional safety is the job of the "specialist," but what happens when the specialist isn't in the room?  We’re looking at why we suspend compassion to complete a task and how that one moment of "autopilot" can create a lifetime of medical avoidance. It’s time to stop treating emotional harm as an outlier and start recognizing it as a shared clinical responsibility for every person in a white coat or a set of scrubs. P.S. Get ideas to bring more joy and fun to your littlest patients 🦋👉 DOWNLOAD THE PLAYFUL PRESCRIPTIONS APP