The Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit wants your stay to be as safe as possible. While on the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, your son/daughter is at risk of falling. While on the unit, your child will receive many medications through their central line and because of this, your child will need to be "hooked up" to the IV pole for many hours each day. Some of the medications that your child will receive may make him/her unsteady and weak. The following are some suggestions to help lower your child's risk of falling:

1. We want you and your child to feel free to walk around the unit. However, please do not allow your child to push their own IV pole. Please help us teach your child to ask a nurse to help him/her push the IV pole when necessary.
2. Never let your child ride on the base of the IV pole or run with the IV pole.
3. If the cord dangles on the ground, it could get caught in the IV pole wheels and cause the pole to tip over. Please assist your child in keeping the cord wrapped up and not dragging on the floor.
4. Go slow over bumps such as the patient room doorways and at the elevators.
5. Always have your child wear proper footwear. Patients must wear shoes or rubber-soled slippers at all times.
6. Someone should stay with your child while in the bathroom, or when up to the commode.
7. Help us teach your child to use the call light so a nurse can help him/her go to the bathroom when you are not here.