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Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 1988"


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TL;DR: This inspiring book becomes one that is very booming after published, this book can steal the market and book lovers to always run out of this book.

206 citations



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TL;DR: Lower mean pain scores at four hourly intervals after medication supported the construct validity of the Oucher, an instrument designed to assess children’s perceptions of the intensity of their pain.

122 citations



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TL;DR: Findings from the analysis of parental interview data suggest that, following the diagnosis of childhood cancer, chronic uncertainty impairs parental ability to adequately appraise the health status of the diagnosed child and the younger siblings of the deceased child.

55 citations


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TL;DR: Factors associated with pediatric nurses’ decisions to medicate for postoperative pain as well as knowledge and attitudes concerning analgesia were investigated in 38 nurses using the Nurses’ Pediatric Pain Relief Questionnaire.

55 citations


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TL;DR: A small convenience sample of adolescents undergoing cancer treatments was queried about what they did to deal with treatment-related pain, and they frequently reported using action and affective strategies.

42 citations


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TL;DR: Compared with the 12-month period prior to enrollment, the CNS group subjects demonstrated a significant reduction in the frequency of emergency room (ER) visits, as well as a significant increase in the number of outpatient department visits in both groups.

41 citations


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38 citations



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TL;DR: Informed mothers—who viewed a videotaped tool—reported a significantly greater reduction in state anxiety than noninformed mothers.

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TL;DR: The literature on the psychosocial responses of children to hospitalization is reviewed, with special emphasis on the responses of school-aged children.

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TL;DR: Investigating the overall psychosocial functioning and specific concerns of 36 children who were long-term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia or a solid tumor that did not involve the central nervous system indicates a possible relationship between cognitive and emotional problems.


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TL;DR: The purpose of this cross-modality study was to explore and compare adolescents’ preferences and response patterns in two distinct scale formats: visual analog and Likert.

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TL;DR: The purpose of the study was to predict whether cognitively appropriate preparation would reduce Piagetian, preoperative-cognitive-aged children's pain-distress reaction to a noxious stimulus.

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TL;DR: This article focuses on assessing coping as a process special to each individual, grounded in the notion that stress and coping can only be understood from a person's own viewpoint (or appraisal) of the situation.

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TL;DR: This column focuses on ethical concerns in the conduct of adolescent research that have been experienced by the authors, along with the strategies used to deal with them.

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TL;DR: A review of feeding practices of Haitian immigrant mothers in South Florida and elsewhere demonstrates the need of health care practitioners to consider cultural beliefs about purgatives and oral nourishment when doing health teaching to mothers of various cultural groups with newborns and infants.

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TL;DR: The primary motive for the development of the nursing research program was the integration of research into practice, just as clinical expertise and education are components of nursing practice.


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TL;DR: The strongest association occurred between the habit of restraining infants during travel right from birth and current car seat use, and the perception that car seats would prevent serious injury was weakly associated with parents "buckling up" their children.


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TL;DR: The author concludes that delays in motor skills are associated with positive effects on the family, while delays in cognitive-psychosocial skills areassociated with negative effects.

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TL;DR: Parents articulated a variety of factors influencing their opinions on visiting policies, such as the visitor's relationship to the child, the seriousness of the illness, the anticipated length of stay, the age of the Child, and the health status of the visitor.

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TL;DR: The use of computer simulation to teach critical decision-making skills to nursing students would be able to problem-solve independently and safely, thus freeing up instructor time as well as negating severe consequences to actual clients.



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TL;DR: This documentation tool serves as an overall guide for preoperative teaching; a means of coordinating teaching efforts of various team members; and a complete documentation of the perioperative teaching in the permanent chart to be utilized for quality assurance and use in current and future research.

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TL;DR: This column is a review of some of the aspects of instrumentation in recently published pediatric nursing research, with emphasis on reliability and validity.