• Caregivers should ask you about your child’s pain and set a goal for what pain level would be acceptable.
• Caregivers will share with you what will be done for your child’s pain and what choices of medications or treatments are available.
• Simple explanations of procedures to your child.
• Prompt attention to your requests for pain medication.
• Prevent pain when it is known ahead of time that something will be painful. For example, needle pain can be prevented with a local anesthetic on the skin.
• Allow you to be with your child to comfort them whenever possible.
• Caregivers should find out how well pain treatments worked and offer different methods if they don’t.
• Discuss side effects of medications and how they can be managed.
• Discuss with you how to manage your child’s pain when he or she is discharged.

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