[goats'r'us]

I'm almost through my first year of uni, and i'm thinking about what area i want to go into. I'm thinking paediatrics, but what do you all find is the hardest part of it and how do you work around it?

~Does a little dance~
~Makes a little love~
~Gets down tonight~

[BuffaloLPN]

I can answer this one in one word-PARENTS!
They can make the situation go from bad to impossible.
The hardest for me is to see and try to accept the WAY some people parent. I am not not a parent (yet
) , which also got me into a lot of situations.
Some of my most situations:
-"don't change the babies diaper until it is saturated-they're too expensive"
-the calorie count for today was 347.863735
-people that only bathe their kids once a week in the summer
-chronic disease pt.-not getting tx's
I could go on and on.

[goats'r'us]

wow, thanks!

Please tell me parents don't REALLY say that about baby's nappies???

Anyone else got something they find hard?

[goats'r'us]

c'mon, pleas can some more ppl post? I REALLY need your responses!

Help me and i'll name a star after you...

[nurs4kids]

Parent's can definitely be challenging. After becoming a parent, I understand a bit more. Also, parent's seem to not be as difficult to me since I've become a parent..almost like they feel I understand their pain. Often, a parent will even ask, "do you have kids?".."if this were your kid, what would you...".

The hardest part to me is seeing kids suffer and in pain.

[canoehead]

Parents...I second and third that motion. Sometimes they can be a godsend, and sometimes they listen to the explanation, say they understand and agree, then turn around and do the EXACT opposite of what you discussed, and act like you never had a conversation. Hell, if you disagree with me just say so- it's your kid- but don't jerk me around.

The other thing is that their children come first, before anyone else's children, before any policy or issue, which I can understand, but when all the patients come first it leaves the poor nurse not knowing where to stand.

Also those that plan on their child not having any unpleasantness whatsoever while in the hospital. 20 minute warm water soak to take off a Bandaid, or CSM checks without touching the child's limb. The ten year old that won't take medicine because it tastes bad. Soooo frustrating. I am no longer working peds, as you can probably tell.

[nurs4kids]

lol..hool, you're so right.

i despise "wisk adhesive removal pads"...
if a parent EVER hears about them, they'll send you to heck and back searching for them to remove a bandaid..

and emla cream..
it's wonderful for alot of things..
but do we REALLY have time to wait 45mins for it to numb when we've got other patients AND the child is already dehydrated??

[mark_LD_RN]

Parents are the biggest problem. alsohad trouble when i worked peds with seeing children whowere negletedor abused it just tore me up.
Ireally found some proceedures to be extremely stressful ie. starting iv's, cathing female babies etc

over all i enjoyed it, i just found a different area that i was called to work in. good luck hope you find an areaand job you love.

[RNConnieF]

I did peds for 6 years and without a doubt it's the parents.

[karoline]

I worked at a children's hospital for almost 10 years. Parents present the biggest challenge to pediatric nursing. Many times they are stressed and angry that bad things have happened to their child/family. Needless to say the nurse takes the hit for their anger and frustration. I found the parents to often be unreasonable as to what needs to be done and their perception.