One of the top struggles of parenting sick children is giving them yucky tasting medications. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I’m no stranger to watching a fresh dose of medication get spit right back up. With sick babies, this situation can be extra difficult, because they do not understand that the medication will actually resolve [...]
Thursday, March 15, 2018
What Parents Need To Know About Febrile Seizures
Seizures are very scary for parents, especially when a baby or young child is seizing. While seizures can be serious, not all seizures carry the same risks or complications. The febrile seizure is an important example. Most febrile seizures end without treatment and do not require seizure medication for prevention. What Is A Febrile Seizure? [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
8 Tips To Help Children With Special Needs Have Easier Medical Appointments
When caring for children with special needs in a medical setting, it is imperative to truly understand what those special needs are. This helps us to better meet the child at their level and make medical appointments as minimally traumatic as possible for them. Just because your child has special needs of some kind does [...]
My name is Dani Stringer. I’ve been a pediatric nurse practitioner since I was eighteen years old, caring for children in private practice and urgent care offices across the Phoenix valley. 
