Toddlers can be slow to warm up and cautious in many new situations such as hospitals or around new people such as nurses. To develop a trusting relationship with the toddler during the assessment the nurse should be able to use many different strategies to put the child at ease. One of these strategies is to prepare before coming in the room, if possible wear scrubs with cartoons on them or colorful, the nurse should learn the name of the child in advance, and enter with a smile on their face. The nurse should have toys present and should develop a trusting relationship by playing with the child which also gives the nurse the opportunity to assess part of the toddlers neurologic and musculoskeletal without it seeming like one. When the actual
