The PAIN approach helps you be the chilled analgesic ninja that the children (& parents) you treat want you to be!

Whenever possible, we should encourage children to tell us how much pain they're experiencing. When they can't, we need another way to recognise and assess their discomfort.

The 3 stages of effective analgesia:

#1 Physical interventions

#2 Psychological interventions

#3 Pharmacological interventions