Tips for Thriving in Pediatric Clinicals – ENCORE! #360
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The best way to prepare for your pediatric clinicals is to review a few specific things in advance, so you can make the most of your experience from day one.
In this episode, I’m sharing my top 6 pediatric clinical tips, including:
- How to customize your plan of care based on the child’s developmental stage
- A quick way to estimate hypotension in children
- The importance of weight-based calculations
- Key differences between an adult and a pediatric airway
- What a child in distress looks like
- Tips for assessing a child in the clinical setting
Having a system in place for your approach to nursing school is just as important as reviewing key things ahead of your peds clinicals. You don’t want just any system though, you want one that sets you up to thrive. I get you started with building a system that allows you to study smarter and feel more prepared in my free Nursing School Survival Blueprint.
Read the article “6 Peds Clinical Tips to Help You Thrive” and view references here.
This is a throwback to episode 360 of the Straight A Nursing School Podcast, where nursing school help is at your fingertips with hundreds of episodes covering your journey from taking the TEAS through passing NCLEX and having success as a new-grad nurse.
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