5 Minute Meditation for Pediatric Providers (S11 Ep. 74)

Meditation begins at 2:00. 

This 5-minute meditation for pediatric providers is designed to help you center your day before your work to boost your wellness, improve resilience, and connect better with yourself, your patients, and your colleagues.

First we’ll create a peaceful environment and establish the ground rules of meditation, then get your body into position. The guided meditation takes you through 5 minutes of breath to help you calm your mind and body while making room for empathy and patience. No judgment, but lots of kindness and compassion for your thoughts and feelings. The session ends by bringing body and mind back into your space and showing gratitude for the practice. Use this meditation every day before you go to work with infants, children, adolescents, and young adults to improve your wellness and their outcomes. 

Welcome to The Peds NP Acute Care Faculty series! This series was created and peer-reviewed by national leaders in acute care PNP education collaborating with one another to meet the needs of our current and future colleagues. In the push for competency-based education where faculty verify the skills of what a student can do, rather than their knowledge, our series focuses on the application of didactic content with a practical approach so that you can learn nuances of clinical skills before you reach the bedside. 

 

This episode reviews the features of a patient presentation in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and goes in depth on how learners can incorporate trends, new findings, and summaries into a succinct discussion in family-centered rounds. After an introduction with some general best practices, the guide begins with effective pre-rounding and progresses to the step-by-step components of a PICU patient presentation. The template describes each component’s contents in detail, followed immediately by an example to demonstrate the practical application of each concept… “It might sound something like this:”... This episode is a valuable tool for any pediatric provider seeking to increase their skills in succinct synthesis and patient presentations, regardless of clinical setting.

 

This episode was peer reviewed by The Peds NP faculty series peer review team. You can read about our novel and scholarly approach to peer review, review our faculty lineup, and learn more about the series, competency mapping, references, and show notes at www.thepedsnp.com. There was no financial support or conflicts of interest to report. Follow me on Instagram @thepedsnppodcast.  Email me at thepedsnp@gmail.com.  Remember that this isn’t just a podcast, you’re listening for the kids.

 

Authors (alphabetical): Jackie Calhoun, DNP, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CCRN, Becky Carson, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC, Lena Oliveros, MSN, CPNP-AC, Priscila Reid, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, CPNP-AC

Peer Review:

This episode was peer reviewed using a modified revised METRIQ (rMETRIQ) Score. Learn more about The Peds NP's formal peer review process at www.thepedsnp.com/peerreview

rMETRIQ Score: 15/15

What does this score mean? This episode underwent a quality assurance process using formal peer review and achieved the top scores based on established quality criteria for podcasts.

Financial disclosures/conflicts of interest: None

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References:

The Meditation Initiative. (nd). 5 minute guided meditation script. https://meditationinitiative.org/5-minute-meditation-script

Mindful. (2024). How to start your day with meditation. https://www.mindful.org/how-to-start-your-day-with-meditation/