Find out what is involved in in-hospital hemodialysis and its benefits.
Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.
Learn how to help your child get used to staying in the hospital.
As a parent/caregiver, you can play an important role in preparing your child to come to the hospital. Learn about your child's surgery, ask questions and find out how you can prepare your child.
Read about some practical help you can provide if you have a friend who has a sick child in the hospital.
Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.
There are certain things that you will need to do to prepare to come to the hospital on the day of your child’s surgery. Review the checklists in this article to help you and your child get ready for surgery.
It is important to keep your child as healthy as possible before a heart transplant. Learn about what happens while you are waiting for a donor heart to become available.
While you're in the hospital, your health-care team may include a teacher to help you keep up with school work. Find out what you can expect from your in-hospital school teacher.
As a parent, you can play an important role in preparing your child for a stay in hospital. Learn about your child's operation, ask questions, and find out how you can prepare your child.
Learn about play for preschoolers staying in the hospital.
Play gives toddlers an opportunity for learning and social development and it may also help to alleviate boredom and stress. Find out about play activities for hospitalized toddlers.
Learn about play for school-age children staying in the hospital.
When your child is coming to the hospital, there are important items you need to remember. Review this article to make sure you're prepared.
Here is an introduction to scoliosis surgery. Links are provided to pages that give information about what will happen before, during, and after surgery.
Learn what to expect when your child comes to the hospital for surgery. Everyone’s surgical journey is different and may look different depending on the hospital you are at.
Learn how a child life specialist can help make your child's hospital experience as positive as possible.
Learn the types of exercises your child can do while in the hospital, after the blood and marrow transplant (BMT).
Coping with your child's illness as a parent means taking care of yourself. Learn practical stress relief approaches for parents.
Learn about child-friendly activities in the hospital, after a blood and marrow transplant.
Pharmacists are trained health professionals who are medication experts. Learn about the role they play in the health-care team.
Parents/caregivers may experience a lot of emotions when they learn their child needs surgery. Learn strategies to help you prepare yourself before the surgery so that you can better support your child.
Learn techniques to help distract your child from, and manage, their pain in the hospital and at home.
Learn how "care-by-parent" prepares you to care for a child with complex needs when they are discharged from hospital.
