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Provider Tool Kit

This interactive eBook makes it easy to learn all the ways our free pain management resources can be used to make life easier for you and your patients.

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Printable Comfort Poke Plan for Kids

We all do better with a plan! Use this to help kids create one of their very own before their next poke.

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Creating Comfort for Kids Printable Poster

Let our monsters teach kids and families how to prevent pain and anxiety during needle pokes!

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Comfort Positioning Guide

Learn comfort positions that allow you to calm and comfort your child while keeping them safe!

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Emi’s Story: Courage and Hope

How learning pain management skills changed everything for this family.

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Far From “Just a Poke” Common Painful Needle Procedures and the Development of Needle Fear

From the Clinical Journal of Pain, a good article outlining the implications of poorly managed needle pain, including the development of needle fear.

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A hospital-wide initiative to eliminate or reduce needle pain in children using lean methodology

Released in 2018 by the International Association of the Study of Pain, this article outlines a hospital created a new standard of care around pain, and addressing the fact that pain remains common, underrecognized, and undertreated in children’s hospitals and pediatric clinics. Available open source.

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World Health Organization: Reducing pain at time of vaccination position paper

This position paper, released in September 2015 reviews the research, and outlines the recommendations for managing vaccination pain.

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Pediatric pain treatment and prevention for hospitalized children

The article from the International Association of Pain Reports reviews the latest research in prevention and treatment of acute and chronic pain in children. Available open source.

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Treating Needle Fears May Reduce COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Rates by 10%

A new large-scale study shows that a quarter of the UK adult population screens positive for a potential injection phobia.

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Efficient procedural pain best practices summary article from the Canadian Medical Association

This articles outlines the recommendations for procedural pain clinical protocols, including a very useful evidence summary. This also reflects the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and nearly every other pediatric organization in the world. Available open source.

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Newly released in 2020: an update reinforcing treatment recommendations for pediatric pain

Across the adult population, blood-injection-injury fears may explain approximately 10% of cases of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Addressing such fears will likely improve the effectiveness of vaccination programs.

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