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Pediatric Blood Draws (Nursing)

by Paula Ruedebusch, DNP, FNP-BC

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    00:01 Pediatric blood draws.

    00:03 As a nurse, you're gonna need to know how to draw blood from a pediatric patient and make this a less traumatic experience for everyone.

    00:09 And this involves trying to incorporate a cheerful environment, now this is hard because kids are sick and they're scared but you can do your best.

    00:16 There are certain special phlebotomy chairs, sometimes they look like a fire engine, and sometimes this can help decrease pediatric anxiety.

    00:24 Another good option is a procedure room.

    00:27 And this is where you'll actually take the baby out of their hospital room into a procedure room and this is a good place to do painful or scary procedures so that the child can actually sleep and rest in their own hospital room.

    00:39 You're gonna want to use kid-friendly equipment and supplies.

    00:42 You're gonna try to provide physical and visual distractions and sometimes the parents can help but usually this is the staff's job.

    00:50 At the end you want to offer a reward.

    00:54 When you draw blood from a pediatric patient, you need to remember that they have va small body so they have a small blood volume.

    01:00 You need to determine a safe amount of blood that can be drawn from your patient.

    01:04 To help assist with the pediatric blood draw, you can use a heel warmer or a warm blanket to help the surface level capillaries vasodilate.

    01:12 In a patient weighing less than 20 pounds, you're gonna obtain blood via a heel stick.

    01:17 In patients greater then 20 pounds, you can do a heel stick or an arm draw.

    01:22 In patients less than 1 year old, you're not going to be performing a finger stick.

    01:26 And remember, let gravity be your friend, you can always put the extremity that you;re gonna be drawing in a lower position to help increase the blood flow.

    01:35 A metabolic screening.

    01:36 This is required by many US states on newborns and it's going to screen for metabolic disorders and genetic disorders.

    01:43 Blood is colected via a heel stick and is added on to a filter paper card.

    01:48 If a patient is diagnosed with one of these metabolic conditions, they can approach early intervention treatment.


    About the Lecture

    The lecture Pediatric Blood Draws (Nursing) by Paula Ruedebusch, DNP, FNP-BC is from the course Blood Disorders – Pediatric Nursing.


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    1. Older than 1 year
    2. Older than 6 months
    3. Older than 3 months
    4. At 1 month

    Author of lecture Pediatric Blood Draws (Nursing)

     Paula Ruedebusch, DNP, FNP-BC

    Paula Ruedebusch, DNP, FNP-BC


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