Health Professionals

This section contains information and resources relevant to health professionals working with children and young people.

Policies

Standards for the Care of Children and Adolescents in Health Services

AWCH Play Provision Policy

AWCH Health Care Policy Relating to Children and Their Families

AWCH Presentations

Lessons Learned from Advocating for Children

Changing Hospital Environments - Are Children Falling Through the Gaps?

Changing Hospital Environments - A Rural Perspective

Healthy Solutions for Children: Making the Right Choice

Quality Care and Protection in Children's Wards

Other Useful Resources

Faces Pain Scale - Revised
www.usask.ca/childpain/fpsr

INJECTIONS Tips to make them less difficult For you and your patients
www.childlife.org/files/InjectionsHCPsAMS.pdf

About CP : Early School Years
www.thespasticcentre.org.au/about_cp/early_school_years.htm
The Early School Years Fact Pack is designed to assist teachers, teacher's aides, students and parents to learn more about what may be helpful for children with cerebral palsy in the early years.

Free Checklist Related to Changing the Concept of Families as Visitors
www.medicalhomeinfo.org/about/newsletter/#i4
Changing the concept of families as visitors and recognizing families as partners in the care of patients is critical in advancing the practice of patient- and family-centered care. The Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care offers a variety of resources concerning family presence and participation during hospitalization. Are Families Considered Visitors in our Hospital or Unit is a free checklist available for download on their Web site. This resource presents a framework to examine staff practices and the hospital infrastructure to determine how well family presence and participation are supported. The checklist is helpful to understand current policies and practices and useful in prioritizing action steps for a plan of change.

The Family-Centered Care Self-Assessment Tool – Provider Tool (pdf)
www.familyvoices.org/pub/index.php?topic=fcc
Health care settings can use this structured tool in quality improvement activities and to support development of the first key component of a medical home as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics—“provision of family-centered care through developing a trusting partnership with families, respecting their diversity, and recognizing that they are the constant in a child’s life” (AAP, 2002). This tool can be used to increase family satisfaction with the care setting and to increase its standing in the community.

Children's Rights Curriculum
www.aap.org/commpeds/resources/childrensrights.htm
The Children's Rights Curriculum can be used to raise awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by increasing the understanding of its direct application to health and health care policy and practice, raise awareness of the relationship between public policy and the health rights of children and encourage a commitment to the development of an advocacy role related to children's rights.