Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing in 1997"

TL;DR: It is suggested that parental needs are similar regardless of where the death occurred, and implications for nursing practice and areas for further research were identified.

TL;DR: Study findings suggest that health care personnel help children with cancer to reduce their fear of painful and frightening procedures by creating a relationship with the child.

TL;DR: Swedish parents' experience of problems related to their child's/adolescent's cancer and the effect of those problems on the parents' life situation are identified to help sensitize health care personnel to the problems experienced by parents of children and adolescents with cancer.

TL;DR: Oral mucositis is one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment and with proper management, the severity and duration of oral complications can be minimized.

TL;DR: Behavior changes identified by both the siblings and mothers included being more sensitive to the needs of others, being more thoughtful, playing with friends, fighting, trouble sleeping, and complaints of headaches.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the time of the child's diagnosis with cancer also affected the parents' reported child-rearing practices, and the primary types of items that shared or demonstrated significant differences between the two groups of parents were those dealing with discipline and overprotectiveness issues.

TL;DR: Examination of the stress responses of mothers at four times during their child's hospitalization for an HSCT found a specific coping style significantly explained the variance in mothers' scores for anxiety, depressive symptomatology, somatic complaints, and sleep behavior.

TL;DR: These study findings indicate that the two new instruments can help to measure the child's perceptions of the cancer experience and demonstrated expected relationships with measures hypothesized to covary with the dimensions assessed by the new instruments.

TL;DR: What is known about the sense of self in children with cancer and in childhood cancer survivors is examined and recommendations for research and practice that will lead to an increased understanding of the self in this patient population are presented.

TL;DR: Evaluation of the potential benefits of hope to this population's adaptation to varying health states and ongoing research of hope in this population will be further demonstrated.

TL;DR: The results suggest that swimming does not increase the risk of catheter-related infections in children with tunneled catheters.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that early glutamine supplemented tube feedings in children receiving intensive chemotherapy alone or in combination with bone marrow transplantation will result in improved nutrition with fewer infections and lower cost than TPN-supplemented patients, and a shorter hospital stay and improved quality of life are anticipated.

TL;DR: This annotated bibliography reviews the professional literature published in English, from 1985 to 1995 inclusive, on the subject of the use of hypnosis with pediatric cancer patients and contains 37 items organized into three categories.

TL;DR: The processes of developing and implementing a conscious sedation protocol for pediatric oncology patients undergoing painful procedures are presented, and the protocol itself is included.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to examine the interrelated aspects of change in health care delivery and their impact on pediatric bone marrow transplant recipients and families.

TL;DR: A newly developed strategy for EBV LPD prophylaxis in pediatric BMT recipients is presented and it is shown that immunovirological assays can provide early identification of patients at risk for developing EBv LPD.

TL;DR: Clinical pathways are used to plan medical and nursing care and provide the ideal sequencing and timing of staff actions to progress toward the outcomes with optimal efficiency.

TL;DR: Challenges for nurses include providing anticipatory guidance for patients and families undergoing these novel therapies and devising treatment strategies to manage the complications.

TL;DR: It is your own time to continue reading habit and one of the books you can enjoy now is the living legacy here.

TL;DR: A discharge program was developed using tools to help staff, patients, and families be prepared for a timely and successful discharge of the BMT patient.

TL;DR: In this article, Walker made a comment on Verna Hendricks-Ferguson's article on hope in adolescents with cancers in the first person at the outset and was struck by the lyric quality of this work and the tradition on which it builds.