Our Comfort Policy

At Covenant Children’s, we strive to promote your child’s physical and emotional comfort throughout their hospital experience. In 2018, Covenant Children's created a Comfort Committe that, in early 2019, created a pediatric Comfort Policy - the first hospital in the region to have such a policy - outlining the steps we take to decrease fear while minimizing pain and discomfort. This Comfort Policy is an extension of our Patient and Family Centered philosophy to care.

Essential Components

• In collaboration with the family and child’s team, we establish an individualized comfort care plan based upon an assessment
• We empower family caregivers to nurture and support their child during procedures
• We provide developmentally-based patient/family preparation and education

Comfort Care Plan

• We utilize a combination of evidence-based strategies based upon your child’s age, sensory sensitivities, and assessment
• These strategies may include a combination of the following:
  • Use of comfort positions*
  • Distraction and coping interventions
  • Sucrose and breast feeding for infants
  • Topical numbing agents
  • Pharmacologic approaches or sedation, as indicated (e.g. younger children, children with developmental disabilities, etc. may require some level of pharmacologic intervention or secdation)