Find Ways to Help
Your Child Recover

After your child is discharged from the Emergency Department or Hospital, she will need to follow up with her doctor and possibly other healthcare professionals to make sure that she is healing well. It would be helpful to go through the rest of this website before going to the doctor. This site will allow you to rate your child's reactions and create a report to share with your doctor.

Aside from the injury itself, there are things about just being in the hospital that can be traumatic for children and parents.

Working with the Health Care Team - Suggestions from Other Parents:

Being in the Emergency Department can be a scary and stressful experience for injured children and their parents. Parents have many worries and questions and it can sometimes be difficult to get all of the answers right away. Communicating well and often with the ED medical team about your child will help them provide your child with the best possible treatment. It can also help you play a more active role in your child's care.

Working with the Health Care Team - Suggestions from Other Parents:

Sometimes parents need extra help too.

Do you have traumatic stress reactions that:

• get in the way of you getting back to (or enjoying) usual activities
• seem to make it harder for you to talk with your child about what happened
• seem to be getting worse rather than better
• have lasted more than a month

If so, you may want to seek out a professional who can help you.

Click here for links and resources which other parents have found helpful: