• Seek support and
• Maintain privacy and explain limits of confidentiality • Clarify differing opinions between parents and child • Provide trust, active listening, respect, and rapport in daily nursing care • Avoid confusing physical maturity with emotional maturity
guidance from social supports other than parents
• Time of sexual development • Behavior can shift
between adult and child • Still need adult supervision • Seek trust • May develop their own communication and language with peers • Are easily influenced by peers
T IPS This activity allows the student to quickly remember differences among the age groups and how the nurse must adjust their care to align themselves with the developmental needs of the patient. G OALS This table allows the student to visualize the differences among age groups while demonstrating ways the nurse should respond when caring for a child in the hospital. O NLINE A PPLICATION • Divide students into pairs. Using an online discussion board, ask each pair to complete key characteristics and proper nursing interventions for each age group. • Divide students into teams of four, and assign each team a different age group. Using an online discussion board, teams should create a patient scenario they may encounter when providing care for a patient of their assigned age group. Patient scenarios should include the following items: • Background information, including age, gender, and diagnosis of the patient • History of presenting illness • Past history • Family dynamics
R ELATED Q UIZZING A SSIGNMENTS To help students explore the full depth of this topic, the following are available to assign: • Pre-set Edge assignment (about 15 questions): Family Dynamics and Communicating With Children and Families
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