Caring to Care

Letter to editor: Palliative care: The hidden loop of caring for Iranian children with cancer

The growing number of children with chronic diseases is a global issue. Cancer is one of the most important chronic diseases in children. According to WHO, the number of children with cancer varies from 50 to 200 cases per million children worldwide .However, the incidence of childhood cancers in Iranian girls and boys is reported to be 48-112 and 51-141 per million children, respectively .Canc...

Site Visit: Ghana—caring to Learn, Learning to Care

The Child, School, Community Project in Education (CHILDSCOPE) project in the Afram Plains aimed to identify the current learning context of the rural Ghanaian child. The project investigates both formal and informal areas of children's learning. The key question posed is: Why do children appear not to be learning very much in school? The project then identified those changes which could be mad...

Priorities of Caring Behaviors from Critical Care Nurses Viewpoints

Background and Objectives: Caring is central to the nature of nursing. Due to the special conditions of patients in the critical care wards, caring behaviors are important to be considered. Despite the important role of nurses in quality of care, viewpoints of nurses on the caring behaviors are unclear. This study investigated the views of critical care nurses toward caring behaviors priorities...

Caring for Caregivers: Bridging the Care Gap.

While drawing on different perspectives, the insightful responses of our commentators all highlight the increasingly crucial role of informal, and mostly unpaid caregivers. They also raise key questions. The first question, "how should we refer to caregivers," pushes us to acknowledge the diversity of caregiver characteristics, contexts and roles. The second, "how should we understand the careg...

Caring for children in foster care.