Pedia Pain Focus

Appropriate pain management is a key driver for both the patient's and healthcare professional's satisfaction. With the recent healthcare crisis and changes to how outcomes and patient satisfaction is evaluated, pain care skills have become paramount. Pediatric pain management impacts every healthcare professional's practice and IS everyone's responsibility. Yet pain care skills and pain education is sparse and inconsistent.  In this episode we discuss the scope of pediatric pain issues, why it is important to address them and why and how each healthcare professional plays a key role in children's pain management and therefore must  consider honing, at a bare minimum, their basic pain management skills.   Takeaways in This Episode Changes in in the healthcare practice and role pain management plays Scope of pediatric pain Impact of children's pain How pediatric pain care affects delivery of healthcare How healthcare costs, reimbursement and productivity are related to pain management What does healthcare pr