Assessing pain in children/babies can be considered as difficult if you are not aware of the different tools out there.
It is so important to ensure that we who are trained are spreading the word about why it is important to be trained in assessing and treating pain in children, as well as explaining the different assessment tools out there. These tools are so easy to administer and so many are free.
I feel that acknowledging that there is pain and doing holistic assessments of pain is the biggest step that we need to ensure in our practice/work environments. We can’t manage something that we don’t know exists.
Allieds such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists are well trained at undergrad level on non-pharmacological pain management techniques but I feel that other healthcare workers forget the allieds and are so quick to rather just jump to pharmacological management.
