Broward Health Coral Springs (BHCS) recently hosted a Teddy Bear Clinic at Seton Ridge Children’s Center in Coral Springs. This is part of the hospital’s initiative to help educate children and desensitize them if they ever have to encounter any medical procedures. To help mimic a hospital setting, the school’s imagination room was set up to look like a hospital where children received the full experience.
The event is designed to introduce children to the clinical setting of a doctor’s office, a clinic, or a hospital in a non-threatening way.
Pediatric nurses from BHCS worked with approximately 200 preschoolers who brought in their “sick” teddy bears and visited a variety of interactive stations that were set up to mimic registration, triage, X-rays, laboratory tests, examinations, and treatments. The kids were sent home with the prescription: “Your teddy bear will be better soon. Give hugs and kisses twice a day.”
