Paediatric procedural pain (e-learning modules)

This resource has been developed by PICS, Victoria’s Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service. 

As part of our professional development and education resources for health professionals, PICS has developed a series of e-learning modules with input from staff from The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Monash Children’s Hospital, and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

This collection of three modules are on Paediatric procedural pain. They will help learners to:

• Describe the rationale for providing effective procedural pain management to children
• Describe patient’s rights in regards to effective procedural pain management
• Recognise the consequences of poorly managed procedural pain management
• Identify the impact of psychological factors on the child’s perception of pain
• Describe the implications of inadequate analgesia
• Describe the components of a good medical procedure
• Describe the stages of a medical procedure
• Demonstrate appropriate planning and assessment for managing pain related to common medical procedures
• Discuss the benefits of medical play therapy as a therapeutic intervention
• Describe approaches to communicating effectively within the health care team
• Discuss the key components of preparing the child, family and environment for procedures
• Select developmentally appropriate non-pharmacological strategies in procedural pain.

The module is freely available, and hosted on the eviQ Education website.