Community Eye Health Journal (Mar 2010)

Looking after young eye patients in hospital

  • Caroline Ayilo,
  • Dianne Pickering,
  • Fay Gallant,
  • Ingrid Mason

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 72
pp. 16 – 17

Abstract

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Admission into hospital can be an anxious and unsettling time for a child, whether it is for a planned eye procedure or as a result of an eye injury. There is a lot you can do to make the hospital experience as positive as possible to reduce stress and anxiety for both child and parent.

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