PSYC 450 Week 7 Healthcare Presentation: Surgery Example

Course	PSYC 450 Children in Healthcare (PSYC450)
Module/Week	7
Assignment	Healthcare Presentation: Final
Paper type	Fifteen-slide presentation with speaker notes and reference slide
Length	about 1,065 words, 4 double-spaced pages plus title page and references. Course guide: per the course guide, a PowerPoint of 13 to 17 slides, not including an updated reference page, on an approved topic about children in health care, with at least 6 scholarly references in current APA format in addition to the course textbook and the Bible
Format	APA 7 student paper
Points	150
School	Liberty University Online
Program	BS in Psychology
Where it sits	Module/Week 7 in Liberty's published PSYC 450 course guide; current sections can differ
Updated	October 2026

Free sample paper for PSYC 450 Week 7

Healthcare Presentation Final: Preparing Children for Surgery, Fifteen Slides on Anxiety, Recovery and What Helps

[Student Name]

School of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University

PSYC 450: Children in Healthcare

Healthcare Presentation (final)

[Instructor Name]

[Date]

The presenter is a composite student and the topic stands in for one approved from the course's list; the textbook, Scripture and the published studies are real and described from their published sources; the requirements follow Liberty's public course guide for PSYC 450.

Healthcare Presentation Final: Preparing Children for Surgery, Fifteen Slides on Anxiety, Recovery and What Helps

Slide 1: Ready for Surgery

Preparing children for surgery
PSYC 450 Healthcare Presentation
Why preparation is part of medical care

Speaker notes: This presentation examines how health care teams can prepare children emotionally for surgery. I will show why preoperative anxiety matters for recovery, what research says about interventions and what a practical preparation plan looks like.

Slide 2: A Child in the Preoperative Area

Why this part earns its pointsOpening with one child keeps the evidence that follows tied to a real experience.

Five-year-old Leo, waiting for surgery
Crying, clinging, refusing the gown
A common scene, with lasting effects

Speaker notes: Leo is waiting for an adenoidectomy. He is clinging to his father and refusing to change. Scenes like this happen every day, and staff often see them as a short delay. The research suggests they are more than that.

Slide 3: How Common Is Preoperative Anxiety?

Many children are highly anxious before surgery
Anxiety peaks at separation and induction
Younger and less sociable children at higher risk (Fortier et al., 2010)

Speaker notes: Fortier et al. (2010) followed 261 children aged 2 to 12 from before surgery through two weeks at home. Children with low sociability and those whose parents were highly anxious were more likely to experience anxiety across the whole perioperative period.

Slide 4: Anxiety and Pain After Surgery

241 children, ages 5 to 12, tonsillectomy (Kain et al., 2006)
Anxious children: more pain, more pain medication
Emergence delirium 9.7% versus 1.5%

Speaker notes: Kain et al. (2006) found that children who were highly anxious before tonsillectomy had more pain in the hospital and during the first days at home, needed more codeine and acetaminophen, and were more likely to wake from anesthesia agitated or to sleep poorly afterward.

Slide 5: The Pattern Holds Across Studies

Systematic review of 10 studies (Chieng et al., 2014)
Higher perioperative anxiety, higher postoperative pain
Anxiety also linked to behavior changes at home

Speaker notes: Chieng et al. (2014) reviewed ten studies of children and adolescents having elective surgery and found that those with higher perioperative anxiety experienced more postoperative pain. Fortier et al. (2010) also linked anxiety with negative behavior changes after discharge, such as nightmares and separation anxiety.

Slide 6: Development Shapes the Fear

Toddlers: separation from parents
Preschoolers: magical thinking about the body
School-age and teens: loss of control, privacy, information

Speaker notes: Rollins et al. (2018) explain that children's understanding of illness and procedures changes with development. A preschooler may fear being cut in half, while a teenager may worry most about waking up during surgery or being seen undressed. Preparation must match these differences.

Slide 7: Preparation Through Therapeutic Play

Why this part earns its pointsThe intervention slides report what each study measured, so the audience can see where the evidence is strong and where it is limited.

Randomized trial, 203 children (Li et al., 2007)
Lower anxiety before and after surgery
No difference in postoperative pain

Speaker notes: Li et al. (2007) compared therapeutic play with routine information for school-age children having day surgery. Children given play-based preparation rated their anxiety lower on both sides of the operation and were calmer when anesthesia began, yet their pain scores matched the comparison group. Preparation helps, but it does not replace pain management.

Slide 8: What Happens at Induction

Cochrane review: 28 trials, 2,681 children (Manyande et al., 2015)
Parental presence alone did not reduce child anxiety
Evidence quality mostly very low

Speaker notes: Manyande et al. (2015) reviewed nonpharmacological interventions at induction of anesthesia. Surprisingly, in five trials with 557 children, having a parent present did not reduce children's anxiety compared with no parent present. Some child-focused approaches, such as a video the child chose, showed more promise, but the reviewers judged the evidence very uncertain.

Slide 9: Distraction for Needles and IVs

Distraction and hypnosis reduce needle pain and distress (Birnie et al., 2018)
Let the child choose the distraction
Offer comfort positions instead of restraint

Speaker notes: Many children fear the IV more than the surgery. In the Cochrane review by Birnie et al. (2018), children who were distracted or guided through hypnosis rated needle pain and fear lower than children who received usual care. Giving the child a choice of distraction and an upright comfort position adds control.

Slide 10: Supporting Parents

Parent anxiety predicts child anxiety (Fortier et al., 2010)
Prepare parents before the day of surgery
Give parents a clear role

Speaker notes: Because parental anxiety predicts children's anxiety, preparation should include parents. A parent who knows what will happen, where to wait and what to say can model calm. Rollins et al. (2018) describe family-centered care as partnership, and preparation is one place that partnership becomes practical.

Slide 11: Welcoming Children

Why this part earns its pointsGiving Scripture its own slide, tied to a specific practice, meets the guide's requirement without treating it as decoration.

Jesus took children into his arms and blessed them (English Standard Version Bible, 2001/2016, Mark 10:16)
Every child deserves to be welcomed, not hurried
Care for fear is care for the whole child

Speaker notes: When the disciples tried to keep children away, Jesus was indignant and welcomed them. For Christians working in health care, that scene suggests that a frightened child's emotions are not a delay to be managed but a person to be welcomed. Preparation is one way of taking a child into our arms.

Slide 12: A Preparation Plan, Before the Day

Age-appropriate book or video at home
Pre-admission tour or photo book
Parent guide with words to use and avoid

Speaker notes: Preparation works best when it starts early. Families can receive a short video or book, a tour or photo book of the unit and a guide for parents that suggests honest, simple language.

Slide 13: A Preparation Plan, On the Day

Child life session with medical play
Child's choice of distraction for the IV and induction
Comfort position and a clear plan for separation

Speaker notes: On the day of surgery, a brief child life session with a doll and real equipment can let the child rehearse, and offering choices about distraction, comfort items and how to say goodbye to a parent turns a frightening sequence into one the child can help direct.

Slide 14: After Surgery

Reunite child and parent quickly in recovery
Watch for pain, delirium and sleep changes
Prepare families for behavior changes at home

Speaker notes: Because anxious children are more likely to have pain and behavior changes, follow-up matters. Families should know that nightmares or clinginess can occur and that they usually fade, and they should know whom to call.

Slide 15: Summary

Anxiety before surgery affects recovery after it
Preparation, distraction and family support help
Some intuitive strategies need better evidence

Speaker notes: Preoperative anxiety is common and consequential. Preparation through play, distraction for procedures and support for parents all have research behind them, while some intuitive practices, like parental presence alone, need more study.

Slide 16: References

Textbook and Scripture: Rollins et al. (2018); English Standard Version Bible (2001/2016)
Anxiety and outcomes: Kain et al. (2006); Fortier et al. (2010); Chieng et al. (2014)
Interventions: Li et al. (2007); Manyande et al. (2015); Birnie et al. (2018)

Speaker notes: The complete APA entries for all nine sources are listed beneath this deck, matching the short citations used on each slide.

References

Birnie, K. A., Noel, M., Chambers, C. T., Uman, L. S., & Parker, J. A. (2018). Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2018(10), Article CD005179. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005179.pub4

Chieng, Y. J. S., Chan, W. C. S., Klainin-Yobas, P., & He, H.-G. (2014). Perioperative anxiety and postoperative pain in children and adolescents undergoing elective surgical procedures: A quantitative systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(2), 243-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12205

English Standard Version Bible. (2016). Crossway. (Original work published 2001)

Fortier, M. A., Del Rosario, A. M., Martin, S. R., & Kain, Z. N. (2010). Perioperative anxiety in children. Pediatric Anesthesia, 20(4), 318-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03263.x

Kain, Z. N., Mayes, L. C., Caldwell-Andrews, A. A., Karas, D. E., & McClain, B. C. (2006). Preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain, and behavioral recovery in young children undergoing surgery. Pediatrics, 118(2), 651-658. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2005-2920

Li, H. C. W., Lopez, V., & Lee, T. L. I. (2007). Effects of preoperative therapeutic play on outcomes of school-age children undergoing day surgery. Research in Nursing & Health, 30(3), 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.20191

Manyande, A., Cyna, A. M., Yip, P., Chooi, C., & Middleton, P. (2015). Non-pharmacological interventions for assisting the induction of anaesthesia in children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015(7), Article CD006447. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006447.pub3

Rollins, J. H., Bolig, R., & Mahan, C. C. (Eds.). (2018). Meeting children's psychosocial needs across the health-care continuum (2nd ed.). PRO-ED.

What the PSYC 450 Week 7 instructions ask

PSYC 450 gathers its heaviest assignment, the 150-point Healthcare Presentation final, in Module/Week 7, together with DB Forum 5 and after chapter 12 of Rollins and colleagues and a presentation. It builds on the topic chosen in Module/Week 3 and the annotated reference page submitted in Module/Week 5. The guide requires a PowerPoint of 13 to 17 slides, not counting an updated reference page, on the approved topic about children in health care. Six or more scholarly works in current APA form are required on top of Rollins and colleagues and Scripture, which makes biblical integration a graded element rather than an optional touch.

How this PSYC 450 Week 7 example is built

The opening slides define the topic and state why it matters, with a brief scene of a child in a preoperative area. Three slides present evidence on the effects of anxiety, from the tonsillectomy study to the systematic review and a study following children for two weeks at home. A slide covers developmental differences. Five slides weigh interventions: preparation through therapeutic play, induction strategies from the Cochrane review including the surprising result on parental presence, distraction for needles and family-centered support for parents. A slide integrates Scripture, two slides give a practical plan for before and on the day, a closing slide summarizes and a reference slide lists the sources.

PSYC 450 Week 7 grading rubric: where the points go

Faculty grade the final presentation on accurate, well-organized content about the approved topic, integration of the textbook, the scholarly sources and the Bible, a slide count of 13 to 17 excluding references and current APA format. Strong presentations report research findings precisely, including the children studied and what was measured, and draw practical recommendations from them. Faculty value presentations that acknowledge mixed or surprising evidence, such as interventions that did not work as expected. Design matters: slides should be readable and uncluttered, with consistent fonts and speaker notes carrying the explanation. Biblical integration should be thoughtful and connected to the care of children, not placed on a slide by itself without comment.

PSYC 450 Week 7 help: mistakes that cost points

Choose six or more scholarly sources that cover both the problem and the interventions, ideally the ones annotated in your Module/Week 5 reference page. Organize slides as an argument: why the issue matters, what research shows, what to do. Keep bullets short, three or four per slide, and put detail in the notes. Report at least one finding that complicates a common assumption, since that shows careful reading. Integrate Scripture on its own slide or within the care section, and explain its relevance rather than quoting it alone. Count your slides before submitting, since the range is strict; the reference page does not count toward the 13 to 17, and in-slide citations should match it exactly.

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What is the PSYC 450 Healthcare Presentation?

A 150-point Module/Week 7 PowerPoint of 13 to 17 slides on an approved topic about children in health care, drawing on six or more scholarly works beyond Rollins and colleagues and Scripture.

Where can I find a free PSYC 450 Week 7 sample paper?

A complete PSYC 450 Week 7 fifteen-slide presentation on preparing children for surgery, with speaker notes on anxiety, recovery, therapeutic play, induction and family support, is on this page.

Does preoperative anxiety affect children's recovery?

Yes; studies link higher anxiety before surgery with more postoperative pain, more emergence delirium and more negative behavior changes at home, which is why preparation matters.

Does having a parent present at anesthesia induction reduce a child's anxiety?

A Cochrane review found that in five trials with 557 children, parental presence at induction did not reduce children's anxiety compared with no parent present, though other interventions showed promise.

How many slides does the PSYC 450 Healthcare Presentation need?

Between 13 and 17 slides, not counting the updated reference page, with at least six scholarly references in current APA format plus the course textbook and the Bible.

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