Pediatrics Chapter 5: Pain Assessment and Management in Children

In this Pediatrics episode, we walk through Chapter 5, which focuses on the assessment and management of pain in infants, children, and adolescents. We’ll review how nurses assess pain using behavioral, self-report, and multidimensional pain scales, including age-appropriate tools such as FLACC, Wong-Baker FACES, numeric rating scales, and pain assessment methods for nonverbal and cognitively impaired children. You’ll also hear an overview of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic pain management strategies, including comfort measures, distraction, family involvement, and the safe use of analgesic medications. This episode provides a comprehensive, exam-focused review to help nursing students understand how to effectively assess and manage pediatric pain across clinical settings.Source: All information in this podcast is based on Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, Chapter 5