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	POLICY: Pain in infants and children will be assessed and addressed. PURPOSE: Pain is assessed to understand how much pain a child is experiencing and to understand if what is being done to relieve pain is working. Information can be provided to parents to help them identify a child's pain. GUIDELINES: Infants and children under 3 years of age: Infants experience pain, in which the intensity may be measured somewhat with their cry. The following criteria is a practical approach to assessing pain in the infant: Not crying; Moaning or quietly crying; Child is crying, but gently or...
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	...picked up and comforted. Children 3 or 4 years of age: May become quiet and inactive; May become hyperactive; May only be able to express pain in single words; Parents recognize pain through changes in behavior and communicate what word is used at home for pain. Children 5 to 10 years of age: Can tell you more about pain; Can use faces or other pain scale 0-5 or 0-10 least pain to worst pain for units of measure in assessing pain; Can draw pain location on a body diagram. ...