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Providing pediatric patients and their families with a sense of normalcy during hospitalization.
When the normal pattern of an infant, child, or adolescent’s day is interrupted due to hospitalization, it is important for a patient and his/her family to know that someone will respond to their psychosocial, developmental and educational needs. Hasbro Children’s Hospital offers a Child Life Program with a family-centered care focus. Child life services is located throughout the hospital, including the pediatric intensive care unit, emergency department, surgical services, various outpatient clinics and inpatient units.
Child life services include the Child Life Program and the Hospital School Services, which collaborate with one another to better serve patient and family needs.
Services that Child life specialists provide during hospital visits can include:
- Providing developmentally appropriate play opportunities, including medical play.
- Preparation for tests, procedures, and/or surgery through the use of developmentally appropriate medical play and teaching materials.
- Supporting patients and families during healthcare events by providing emotional support and/or distraction.
- Offering choices to pediatric patients, which enable them to make decisions, concentrate on play, enhance their natural creativity, and master new skills, which enhance coping.
- Helping pediatric patients maintain a sense of independence, self-esteem, and control.
For more information on child
life or the hospital school, please call child life services at 401-444-8278.
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