What nursing interventions should the nurse plan for a hospitalized toddler to minimize fear of bodily injury?

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Whenever procedures are performed on young children,the most supportive intervention to minimize the fear of bodily injury is to do the procedure as quickly as possible while maintaining parent-child contact.Because of toddlers' and preschool children's poorly defined body boundaries,the use of bandages may be particularly helpful.For example,telling children that the bleeding will stop after the needle is removed does little to relieve their fears,but applying a small Band-Aid usually reassures them.The size of bandages is also significant to children in this age group; the larger the bandage,the more importance is attached to the wound.Watching their surgical dressings become successively smaller is one way young children can measure healing and improvement.Prematurely removing a dressing may cause these children considerable concern for their well-being.

What Nursing Interventions Should the Nurse Plan for a Hospitalized