Embodying Compassion as a Pediatric Home Care Nurse

As a Pediatric Home Care Nurse, you play a large role in making sure your patients are taken care of. That is why it is of the utmost importance that you practice compassion in your work as a nurse.

What is Compassionate Care in Pediatric Nursing?

Compassionate care in pediatric nursing is based on having deep empathy and concern for children, as well as a desire to take action to help the patient. This positively impacts patients by reducing stress, promoting healing, and enhancing their overall well-being, helping to build trust and rapport between young patients and their families.

How to Incorporate Compassion Into Pediatric Care

Build Trust 

Building trust with your patient helps foster open communication, allows for a personalized care plan, and also leads to a stronger nurse-patient relationship. Pediatric Home Care Nurses can help build a trusting relationship by operating in a friendly and welcoming manner, approaching patients using a soothing tone of voice and gentle touch, and listening to a child and their parent’s concerns regarding their health. Use non-verbal communication like smiling and keeping eye contact, open posture and nodding, and appropriate facial expressions that can mirror the child’s emotions and provide comfort. 

Effectively Communicate 

Effective communication helps empower patients and ensures that their needs are met. When speaking to a patient and their family, it’s important to speak with them on their level. Use age-appropriate language, avoid complicated medical jargon, and give them the chance to ask any questions they might have. 

Advocate for Patients

Advocating for patients as a Pediatric Home Care Nurse ensures that medically fragile children feel safe and protected. Advocacy in nursing means promoting and improving the health and healthcare of all children and their families through education, collaboration, and defending patient rights. Advocacy strategies for nurses include the following:

• Listening actively 
• Educating patients and families on medical conditions 
• Promoting cultural sensitivity 
• Strengthening nursing skills to offer the best care possible
• Collaborating with the healthcare team of the patient 

Thrive SPC Leads with Compassion

One of Thrive SPC’s main core values is compassion. Our mission is to alleviate the distress, pain, and suffering of the families we serve with love and kindness. We approach every family with empathy, having a deep desire to help them. Through compassionate care, Thrive SPC can make a difference and be there for a child’s worst days, best days, and all the memorable moments in between. Go to https://www.thrivespc.com/ to learn more.