Pediatric Care Advice
Clear, Consistent Guidance for Parents
Trusted, evidence-based handouts that save nurse and provider time, improve safety, and support better outcomes for pediatric patients.
Make Care Advice Easy to Remember, Share, and Follow
Parents and caregivers often leave medical visits with only verbal instructions that are easy to forget or misinterpret. Providers, nurses, and call centers need a reliable way to ensure parents have safe, consistent guidance they can review at home.
Pediatric Care Advice (PCA) Handouts give families practical, step-by-step instructions to manage common symptoms, illnesses, and injuries. Written in plain language, PCA Handouts reinforce verbal care advice, improve compliance, and reduce the risk of errors at home.
Give families the guidance they deserve.
Advantages of Pediatric Care Advice
(PCA) Handouts Over Verbal Instructions
PCA Handouts
Traditional Verbal Instructions
Pediatric Care Advice Handouts: How They Work
A Simple Way to Deliver Trusted Guidance
Select the
Right Handout
Providers or nurses choose from more than 550 handouts covering all common pediatric symptoms, infections, allergies, and injuries. Most parenting and behavioral problems are also covered.
Share
with Families
Handouts are delivered instantly—by email, text, or patient portal during telehealth visits, or as printed copies at the end of in-person visits. They are also linked to each nurse triage protocol to send at the end of nurse calls.
Parents Follow
Clear Instructions
Parents and caregivers receive clear, standard, evidence-based steps for home care advice. This ensures consistency across all caregivers, whether it’s a parent, babysitter, or school staff member.
Core Benefits of Pediatric Care Advice Handouts
For Parents and Other Caregivers
- Reinforces verbal instructions after visits or calls
- Ensures all caregivers receive the same guidance
- Improves treatment accuracy at home
- Builds confidence in managing common illnesses
For Telehealth Nurses and Call Centers
- Reduces call length and costs
- Supports complex care advice calls
- Supports calls where the patient does not need to be seen.
- Minimizes repeat calls and increases job satisfaction
For Doctors and Other Providers
- Shortens visit time with less need for lengthy discharge explanations
- Improves treatment adherence and safer outcomes
- Reduces liability risk
- Saves documentation time
- Perfect for primary care and urgent care settings
Built on Trusted Clinical Content
- Based on the care advice in Schmitt Pediatric After Hours Triage Protocols
- All topics written and reviewed by our pediatric editorial team
- Urgent care topics reviewed by emergency medicine physicians
- Specialty topics reviewed by pediatric subspecialists
- Continuously updated and tested in real-world, clinical settings
Healthcare Impact of Pediatric Care Advice (PCA) Handouts
- Licensed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Integrated into leading pediatric EHR platforms
- Used by thousands of pediatric practices, hospitals, and call centers
- Shared in millions of telehealth visits and nurse triage calls
- Published research on a book compilation of PCA Handouts found that new parents who were given the book versus a control group had 24% less sick visits and 23% less nurse advice calls
Where to Get Pediatric Care Advice (PCA) Handouts
PCA Handouts are available from:
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) — included in the AAP Pediatric Patient Education library.
- Office Practicum and PCC— Included in their pediatric electronic health record (EHR) systems.
- Your nurse triage software system