St. Jude has developed many educational resources for you and your family, including our comprehensive "Do you know ...?" series. These are printable materials you can use to learn more about the care and treatment of your child.
Categories
- Assess & Control Pain
- Blood Products, Blood Counts
- Bone Marrow (Stem Cell) Transplant
- Child Life
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Feeding Tubes
- General Information
- Hematology
- Home Care Guidelines
- Legal & Financial
- Nutrition & Dietary
- Patient Safety
- Pharmacy & Medicines
- Prevent & Control Infection
- Procedures, Tests, Sedation
- Psychology
- Radiation Oncology
- Rehabilitation
- Sexuality & Fertility
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Tracheostomy Care
- Other Treatments
Complete List
- 504 plan
- 504 plan for education (sickle cell)
- About Aspergillus fungal infections
- About Candida fungal infections
- About chickenpox
- About CMV
- About Epstein-Barr virus
- About Fentanyl patches
- About Levemir® FlexTouch®
- About NovoLog® FlexPen®
- About patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
- About pharmacogenetics
- Active shoulder range of motion
- ACU isolation precautions
- Acute chest syndrome and sickle cell disease
- Acute splenic sequestration and sickle cell disease
- Admissions screening for the transplant unit
- After a subcutaneous port is removed
- After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic
- After eye removal surgery
- After high dose methotrexate for leukemia
- After high dose methotrexate for solid tumors
- After hours labs for sickle cell patients
- After oral surgery
- After radiation therapy
- Airborne precautions
- Ankle foot orthosis (AFO)
- Anticoagulants and vitamin K
- Aplastic crisis
- Articulation
- Audio and video monitoring
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA)
- Avascular necrosis
- Avascular necrosis and sickle cell disease
- Balance
- Bladder training with a suprapubic catheter
- Bleeding disorder patients: What you should know
- Blood clot facts and treatment
- Blood counts
- Blood counts and sickle cell disease
- Blood counts for hematology patients
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
- Bone Marrow Failure and MDS Clinic patients: Who to call and when?
- Bone marrow transplant for sickle cell disease
- Borrowing Family Resource Center materials
- Bowel prep for contrast enema
- Brachytherapy
- Breastfeeding and milk storage
- Buzzy® device for pain relief
- CADD Prizm® pump alarms
- CADD® Solis pump alarms
- CADD® Solis pump for nerve block infusions
- Calcium and vitamin D
- Calculating the ANC
- CAR T-cell therapy
- Care after toenail removal
- Caring for a pigtail drain
- Caring for your skin during radiation therapy
- Changing a suprapubic catheter
- Changing a trach tube
- Changing trach ties
- Chemotherapy by mouth at home
- Children and hearing aids
- Children and teens taking antidepressants
- Children learn through play
- Cholesterol
- Clean hands
- Clean wagons
- Cleaning the trach tube
- Collecting cells for CAR T-cell therapy
- Collecting urine cultures from children and teens
- Collecting urine cultures from infant boys
- Collecting urine cultures from infant girls
- Comfort items
- Communications aids
- Concierge service at St. Jude
- Constipation
- Constipation and sickle cell disease
- Contact precautions non-restrictive
- Contact precautions restrictive
- Continuous passive motion (CPM)
- Controlling the spread of colds and flu
- Controlling your cholesterol level
- CT scan
- CYP3A5 and medicines
- Cytochrome P450 2C19 (CYP2C19) and medicines
- Cytochrome P450 2C9 (CYP2C9) and medicines
- Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) and medicines
- Daily bathing with Theraworx® cloths
- Daily care for behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids
- Daily care for in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids
- Daily weights
- Deferoxamine infusion using Freedom60® pump
- Deferoxamine infusion using Graseby pump
- Delirium
- DEXA scan
- Diarrhea
- Discharge from the hospital
- DPYD and medicines
- Droplet precautions non-restrictive
- Droplet precautions restrictive
- Dry skin
- Dysarthria
- Dysfibinogenemia
- Early intervention (E.I.)
- Eating safely
- Effects of hearing loss
- Elbow, forearm, and wrist range of motion
- Empty calories: Are they worth it?
- Enuresis and sickle cell disease
- Epidural pain relief
- Exercise and general fitness
- External shunts
- Fatigue
- Feedings, venting, and reflux
- Fever and neutropenia
- Fever in bleeding disorder patients
- Financial assistance for growth hormone products
- Financial help for factor and related products
- Finding a local doctor after cancer treatment
- Finding reliable health information on the Web
- Flushing a peripheral IV (PIV)
- Focusing on Hope
- Food diary
- Foods with potassium
- Frequently asked questions about feeding tubes
- Functional behavior assessment
- G6PD deficiency
- Gallstones and sickle cell disease
- General Hematology Clinic: Who to call, when?
- Giving Consent for an Autopsy
- Giving factor at home through an IV
- Giving factor through a subcutaneous port
- Giving IV fluids at home, CADD® Solis
- Giving IV medicines at home
- Giving lipids at home – cycled, CADD pump
- Giving medicines through the feeding tube
- Giving TPN with a CADD Prizm® Pump
- Giving TPN with a Curlin® pump
- Going back to school
- Great books for children 5 to 8 years old
- Great books for children 8 to 12 years old
- Great books for infants and toddlers
- Great books for preschoolers
- Great books for young adults
- Hamstring flexibility
- Harvesting bone marrow stem cells
- Healthy snacking
- Hearing aid myths and facts
- Hearing aids for teens and adults
- Heat treatment for your child
- Helping babies and toddlers sleep safely
- Helping your child sleep on their own
- Helping your child/teen cope with body changes
- Helping your preschool child cope with death
- Helping your school-age child cope with death
- Helping your teenager cope with death
- Hemolytic anemia
- Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin
- High magnesium foods
- High phosphorus foods
- Hip precautions
- Home care trach supplies
- HopeNet and Family Resource Center computer use
- Hospitalist Medicine Program
- How Child Life can help with tube feeding
- How dietitians can help with feeding tubes
- How HIPAA protects your child's privacy
- How patients react to hospital care
- How siblings react to hospital care
- How to check urine for glucose and ketones
- How to clean a trach site
- How to give intramuscular injections
- How to give subcutaneous injections
- How to help your child gain weight
- How to keep a food diary
- How to mix factor VIII (Advate®) at home
- How to prevent infection
- How to program a CADD Prizm® pump
- How to Program a CADD Solis Pump
- How to Program a Curlin® Pump
- How to put on sterile gloves
- How to read your insurance card
- How to replace a feeding tube that comes out
- How to suction a trach
- How to take a temperature
- How to treat a bleed
- How to use a cane
- How to use a trach humidity system
- How to use a walker
- How to use an N-95 mask
- How to use crutches
- How to wear and care for a splint
- ICU guidelines: What you need to know
- IEP for education (sickle cell)
- Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
- Improving fine motor skills
- Improving handwriting skills
- Incentive spirometer
- Individualized education program (IEP)
- Infection and sickle cell disease
- Influenza (flu) vaccine
- Inpatient guidelines and what to expect
- Inpatient isolation to help prevent infection
- Iron
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Iron overload evaluation
- Is your child's backpack making the grade?
- Isolation precautions in St. Jude housing
- IV pump safety for patients
- IVIG treatment for ITP
- Joint bleeds in hemophilia
- Keeping track of your child in surgery
- Language development - age 1 to 2 years
- Language development - age 2 to 3 years
- Language development - age 3 to 4 years
- Language development - age 4 to 5 years
- Language development - birth to 1 year
- Laws affecting people with health problems
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
- Learning new information
- Living with one (1) eye
- Low-fat diet before ECP
- Lumbar puncture
- Maintaining your child’s IV
- Making liquid medicine for an injection
- Marijuana at St. Jude
- Massage on the GO
- Measuring intake and output for inpatients
- Medical alert bracelets for bleeding disorders
- Medicine effects on hearing
- Medicine Room
- Middle ear dysfunction and hearing loss
- Mixing liquid concentrate infant formula
- Mixing powdered infant formula
- Modified barium swallow test
- More ways to fight fatigue
- Mothers' Rooms at St. Jude
- Mouth care routine
- Mouth care when your child has a feeding tube
- Multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO)
- Nasogastric tube (NG tube)
- Nasopharyngeal wash
- Nausea and vomiting
- Nerve block injections or infusions
- Neuropathic pain
- Noise and hearing loss
- Noisy toys, dangerous play
- NPO – No food or drink before surgery
- NPO – No food/drink before non-surgical procedures
- Nuclear medicine scan
- Nursing bedside report
- Nutrition Counseling Resources
- Obtaining medical supplies
- One-handed shoe tying
- Oral sucrose
- Oral syringes vs. IV syringes
- Outpatient cell phone paging
- Outpatient fast facts
- Over-the-counter medicines and bleeding risk
- Oximeter
- Pain and sickle cell disease: What you can do
- Pain and teens with sickle cell disease
- Parenting teens who face challenges
- Parents' guide for picky eaters
- Parvovirus infection
- Passive shoulder range of motion
- Penicillin skin test
- Peripheral blood stem cell donation
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Photographing, videotaping, streaming, audiotaping
- Physical therapy after leg surgery
- Physical therapy for below knee tumor surgery
- Pica and sickle cell disease
- Platelet storage pool deficiencies
- Play areas
- Positive Expiratory Pressure (PEP) therapy
- Positive patient ID
- Preparing for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Preparing for surgery and other procedures
- Preparing your child / teen for radiation
- Preparing your child for diagnostic imaging tests
- Preparing your child for radiation simulation
- Preparing your child to read
- Preventing falls
- Preventing falls in outpatient areas
- Preventing pressure injuries
- Priapism and sickle cell disease
- Protecting caregivers from drug hazards
- Psychology evaluation
- Quality of life for all (QoLA)
- Radiation therapy
- Rapid Response Team (RRT)
- Receiving a blood transfusion
- Rehab for posterior fossa syndrome
- Rehabilitation and transplant
- Rehabilitation Services
- Resources for people with hearing loss
- Response to intervention
- Retinopathy and sickle cell disease
- Rule out bleeding disorder
- Safety in the home
- SCANS Program neuropsychology testing
- Sedated diagnostic imaging test
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Sepsis
- Serious side effects of CAR T-cell therapy
- Service animal guidelines
- Sibling screening before inpatient visits
- Sickle cell kidney disease
- Sickle cell patients ages 6–18 years: Who to call? When to phone?
- Sickle cell patients newborn to 5 years, 11 months: Who to call? When to phone?
- Sitz bath
- Skin care and dressings for feeding tube sites
- Skin problems with a feeding tube
- SLCO1B1 and medicines
- Social Work services
- Sore mouth diet
- Special airborne precautions
- Splenectomy (Surgery to remove the spleen)
- St. Jude cares about LGBTQ patients
- Stay active and feel better
- Stimate / DDAVP challenge
- Stopping pain and sedation medicines
- Suprapubic catheter
- Surgery for strabismus
- Symptoms of a blood product transfusion reaction
- T-cell therapy for a specific virus
- Talking about sickle cell disease
- Talking to your child / teen about having a solid tumor
- Talking with your child / teen about having a brain tumor
- Talking with your child / teen about having leukemia
- TCD ultrasound and sickle cell disease
- Temperature conversion
- Tennessee law: Child safety in cars
- The benefits of medical play
- The Brain Crew
- The signs of infection
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
- Therapy for preventing blood clots
- Things to avoid when your child has a trach
- Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) and medicines
- Throwing away sharp objects safely
- Timed urine collections
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
- Torticollis (Left side)
- Torticollis (Right side)
- Total body irradiation before stem cell transplant
- Total lymphatic irradiation
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) at home
- Tracheostomy
- Tracheostomy (trach) glossary
- Tracheostomy and a Passy-Muir valve
- Transition from treatment
- Transplant Unit guidelines
- Travel after sedation or anesthesia
- Treatment for plantar warts
- Treatment risks if pregnant
- Trismus
- Troubleshooting feeding tube problems
- Tube feeding
- Types of tubes and sutures
- UGT1A1 and medicines
- Ultrasound
- Unilateral hearing loss
- Urgent care for patients with von Willebrand Disease
- Use of restraints
- Use of TENS for pain relief
- Using comfort positions during stressful events
- Using lidocaine cream for less needle pain
- Using social media
- Using the Eclipse® medicine device
- Using the J-Tip® for less needle pain
- Vaccines and bleeding disorders
- Venipuncture
- Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
- Visiting guidelines
- Vitamin D deficiency and sickle cell disease
- Voice disorders
- VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci)
- Weight loss and other related side effects
- What is a gastrostomy?
- What is hemophilia
- What is occupational therapy?
- What to do after a fever visit
- What to do when you have diarrhea
- What to eat for GVHD1
- What to eat for GVHD2
- What to expect on the Transplant Unit
- What you can do to help your child in pain
- When hands need help
- When the primary clinics are closed
- When to call 911 if your child has trach problems
- Who to call? When to phone?
- Who to call? When to phone? IDS
- Whooping cough
- Why St. Jude needs legal papers for medical care
- WinRho® treatment for ITP
- Withdrawing medicine from a vial
- Word-finding
- Wound vac therapy
- Yoga for kids
- You and the Affordable Care Act
- Your child's prosthetic leg
- Your child’s Trach To-Go Bag
- Your first visit to the Neuro-Oncology Clinic