Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 2004"

TL;DR: Pediatric nurses indicated that a higher proportion of errors were reported than adult nurses indicated, and nursing administration's focus on the person rather than the system and the fear of adverse consequences were primary reasons selected for not reporting medication errors.

TL;DR: EMLA cream was compared with placebo, iontophoresis, and amethocaine cream and was found to be an effective local anesthetic for pediatric venipuncture pain during both intravenous cannulation and phlebotomy.

TL;DR: Relationships among nurses' knowledge and attitudes about children' pain relief, nurses' abilities to overcome barriers to optimal pain management, nurses's analgesic practices, and pain levels of hospitalized children were examined.

TL;DR: Clinical practices regarding parental involvement need to be established to optimize the hospital care of chronically ill children.

TL;DR: The history of neonatal sepsis related to early onset group B streptococcus (GBS) emerged in the early 1970s and the neonatal mortality rate was 55% for those neonates with invasive GBS disease.

TL;DR: An overview of the current body of literature surrounding the definition and measurement of overweight and the morbidity association with childhood overweight is provided.

TL;DR: Correlations were found between some temperamental factors and child's self-reported pain intensity in the hospital and at home as well as parents' report of pain behavior at home.

TL;DR: This study used grounded theory to explore the process of transfer of responsibility for asthma management from parents to their school-age children, and the theoretical model for Parent-Child Transfer of Asthma Responsibility emerged.

TL;DR: Parents' suggestions for reducing children's anxiety included giving better explanations, ensuring that children who have had their operations do not return to the same ward where other children are still waiting, and providing more distractions.

TL;DR: The knowledge generated from this study helps to support the theoretical understanding of vigilance and enhances the ability of health care providers to provide care that is congruent with the needs of parents and their children.

TL;DR: Regression analysis revealed that functional status of the child and coping were significant predictors of mothers' participation in health promotion activities, whereas impact of theChild's illness on the family was inversely related to health promotion of the mothers.

TL;DR: Overall, the findings revealed that participants were generally knowledgeable about and supportive of breastfeeding by adolescent mothers, but some of the nurses did not know that there are nutritional differences between breast milk and infant formula and indicated that they were skeptical about young mothers' potential for success with breastfeeding because of immaturity and lack of commitment.

TL;DR: Although the mean scores of the treatment group were higher than the control group on several of the psychosocial measures, these changes were not significant, however, significant differences were found between the groups on health outcomes.

TL;DR: Examination of the potential value of six purportedly effective "home remedies" to treat head louse infestations and the likelihood of drowning lice by water submersion indicated that only the application of petroleum jelly caused significant louse mortality but no treatment prevented lice from laying eggs.

TL;DR: The findings constitute a systematic and thematic description of Danish grandmothers' experiences and therefore add to a family-oriented body of knowledge in pediatric nursing.

TL;DR: What is known about the grandparent caregiving role in ethnically diverse families in the context of the African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American families is synthesized to identify gaps in knowledge to guide future research, education, and practice in this area of study.

TL;DR: A social ecology approach that focused simultaneously on the environment (ward, medical center, and national scene) and relationships among the clinical team improved pain management practices and suggested that skills in assessment and building collaboration generalized to other patient care situations.

TL;DR: What influences and characterizes family relations in families of a child with asthma is identified and mothers' availability was seen in two dimensions, being governed by disease-engendered uncertainty.

TL;DR: Results indicate that children were more susceptible to experiencing distress symptoms if their families had preexisting relational difficulties and increased television viewing during the days after the attacks.

TL;DR: The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to describe the lived experiences of families caring for a child with cystic fibrosis at the time of initial diagnosis and the themes and subthemes identified during data analysis are described.

TL;DR: This article describes parental refusal of medical care, and it discusses the legal, ethical, and clinical implications.

TL;DR: A new randomized controlled study is presented using nurse case management in a local community coalition for children visiting an emergency department for asthma care, assessing the cost and effectiveness of home-based Nurse Case Management by a community coalition.

TL;DR: A significant increase from 1988 to 2000 in Latino utilization of emergency department and inpatient services at a pediatric medical center in Salt Lake City, Utah, information on health care barriers for Latinos, and suggestions for providing culturally competent care are discussed.

TL;DR: Although the interactive behaviors of mothers and prematurely born children are related to both child gender and ethnicity, some of these effects are better explained by maternal education and child illness severity.

TL;DR: The conceptualization and measurement of family-nurse relationships in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) from the perspective of family systems and boundaries is discussed and principal components analysis confirmed the conceptual intent of the FNBAS- PICU.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationships between two groups of Canadian preschool children and their parents' risk perceptions, safety behaviors, parenting stress, and children's risk behaviors revealed significantly higher numbers of injury behaviors in the group of injured children.

TL;DR: The findings showed that families are a source of support for children in postoperative pain, however, parents have criticized pain-related instructions provided by the hospital staff and further research is needed to deepen the understanding on children's post operative pain as a family experience.

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TL;DR: The major task/hypothesis generated in this study was that children were addressing the process of normalizing and that creating an environment that allowed a child to normalize might be expected to greatly contribute to pain reduction.