Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 2007"

TL;DR: Three family variables (i.e., family demands, family resources, and family problem-solving communication) were significantly associated with family adaptation, providing support for the belief that many families of children with Down syndrome respond to “a change of plans” with resilience.

TL;DR: For the siblings in these five families, a group home was a relevant alternative as a temporary or permanent placement for the child with autism and mental retardation.

TL;DR: In this article, open interviews with 13 fathers were performed, using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, to illuminate their lived experience of caring for their preterm infant, expressed as a process moving from initial feelings of distance toward feelings of proximity.

TL;DR: The upright position appears to be an effective way to decrease IV distress in young children.

TL;DR: Nursing implications included emphasizing open family communication and providing emotional support for diabetes management to promote developmentally appropriate levels of self-care and QoL.

TL;DR: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to arrive at an understanding of the mother's lived experience of parenting a child with FIA, revealing "Living with Risk" as the essence of the experience.

TL;DR: Coaching by an opinion leader for changing pediatric nurses' pain practices was tested in a clustered randomized trial in six Canadian pediatric hospitals and the rate of pain assessments, nurses' knowledge, and nonpharmacological interventions increased in the coaching group.

TL;DR: Drawing is a fun, inexpensive, and easy-to-administer method used to provide school-age children a projective means of expressing attitudes and emotions.

TL;DR: This discussion synthesizes research findings that can be used to design pediatric practice guidelines in the application of music therapy and highlights the importance of partnerships between nurses and music therapists to enhance the success of music-based treatments.

TL;DR: The findings showed that children are capable of offering valuable insights into the elements of quality through the medium of drawing into the environment and the people of their ideal hospital.

TL;DR: Questions related to children participating in clinical research are examined, a review of pertinent literature is summarized, and practical approaches to the recommendations are discussed.

TL;DR: Parents' descriptions of their experiences surrounding the death of their child reveal an environment and a health care team that are often ill-prepared to deal with the impending death of a child.

TL;DR: Transition assessment, planning, and intervention strategies that can be integrated into a comprehensive plan of care are discussed and important issues that adolescents with developmental disabilities face as they approach adulthood are provided.

TL;DR: In providing effective nursing care to meet the needs and satisfaction of mothers, nurses should be concerned with the needs of individuals, their responses to those needs, and need response satisfaction because the satisfaction of these needs is essential for infant well-being.

TL;DR: Age and gender appear to be associated with LOS in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease, although specific factors underlying these findings remain unclear.

TL;DR: It is suggested that pediatric nurses had more positive perceptions of unit support, workload, and overall nurse satisfaction than their colleagues working in nonpediatric facilities.

TL;DR: Understanding the importance of healthy sleep habits and the implications of inadequate sleep on child behavior and family-peer interactions provides nurses an opportunity to decrease family stress and increase positive coping, adaptation, and family function.

TL;DR: Results indicate the importance of parents encouraging their children to take on self-care responsibilities and professional staffs also need to help modify contents and schedules of regimens for each adolescent patient.

TL;DR: The implementation of some of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's tools to facilitate the development of safety cultures within hospital settings are described, such as the Safety Briefings Model and Patient Safety Leadership Walkrounds.

TL;DR: The focus of this article is on strategies pediatric nurses can use to assess and intervene with minority children with I/DD and their families in a culturally sensitive manner.

TL;DR: This study aimed to describe how experienced nurses and physicians handle fear in children with cancer with more than 10 years of experience from a university hospital in Sweden.

TL;DR: The purpose of this qualitative and descriptive study was to describe the relationships among participants in a home visiting program in one regional health authority in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

TL;DR: Examination of neonatal, preschool health, and motor effects on functional performance at age 4 found functional performance is a useful clinical measure to understand how well preterm children perform age-expected daily activities as well as the family burden of preterm sequelae.

TL;DR: A core development team consisting of nurse practitioners and nursing faculty from three universities, one physician assistant faculty, parents of children with DD, and educational specialists developed two multimedia (virtual patient) pediatric instructional modules in CD-ROM format--one involving a child with Down syndrome, and the other involving an infant born at 26 weeks' gestation.

TL;DR: This retrospective study examined two distinct parenting dimensions, demandingness and responsiveness, as independent predictors of adolescent sexual risk behavior and found findings substantiate the use of a dimensional approach to measuring parenting in examining adolescent sexual behavior.

TL;DR: A statistically significant improvement in outcome ratings from admission to discharge was demonstrated for seven of eight NOC outcomes, and nursing interventions used to care for children admitted with a primary diagnosis of dehydration to a 272-bed Midwestern community hospital.

TL;DR: The comprehensive understanding of the results reveals that the parents experience their children's fear as both a suffering and an ethical demand for the parents to answer.

TL;DR: The focus of this article is to review the pathophysiology, associated developmental issues, and existing management protocols used to manage these two separate but highly connected disorders, phenylketonuria and PKU.

TL;DR: Gender and ethnicity differences for looking and talking interactions cannot be explained by simple differences in health status or SES and may possibly be related to the differential brain functions and hormonal effects of boys and girls as well as to differential socialization that influences gender identity and gender roles.

TL;DR: Elevated levels of perceived stress among fathers of surgical NICU babies are demonstrated, with paternal stress highest in the domains of "Parental Role Alteration" and "Infant Appearance and Behavior".