Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

Introduction

Welcome to this free OpenLearn course: Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2.

This course is designed primarily for anyone with an interest in effectively managing acute pain experienced by children and young people in hospital up to the age of 18 years.

This is the second of two OpenLearn courses focusing on the effective management of children’s pain. If you haven’t already engaged with the first course or would like to refresh your memory, a link to it is here: Promoting the effective management of children’s pain [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] . The focus of the first course was on why pain matters and how a pain management framework can be used to deliver the effective management of children’s pain. However, studying this is not compulsory or necessary for studying this second course as Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2 is standalone and can be studied in isolation if you prefer.

The focus of this course, Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2, is on how to empower parents/carers to be actively involved in the effective management of their child’s pain in hospital and will be broken up into four main sections:

1. Parent/carer experiences of their child in pain
2. Helping parents/carers to feel empowered
3. Poor communication
   • Overcoming the busy nurse
   • Improving the communication between parents/carers and nurses
4. Bringing everyone’s views together.

Each section is designed to take about one hour of study. It is best to tackle them in order, but you can of course, go back and look again over aspects that you would like to revisit for any reason.

You will probably want to make notes as you go along, so choose your preferred method for this, either writing in a notebook or on your computer or tablet. There will also be free response box options inside the activities. Please note anything you add into these boxes will be saved for you to return to, provided you are signed into OpenLearn and enrolled on the course. The information saved is only accessible to you and cannot be viewed by anyone else.

At the end of Section 4 you will find a quiz that will challenge you to answer questions on all the materials you have been studying.

This free course provides a sample of the Open University qualification, BSc (Honours) Nursing (Children and Young People).

Enjoy your course!