Nursing the Adopted Infant

[Pedagogical position adopted in nursing and health education in the Brazilian South Region].

Literature review that aimed at analyzing the pedagogy positions in nursing education of the South Region of Brazil, through the means of production of scientific articles published in the last five years (2004-2008) by the research groups in Education of Nursing. The emerging categories were based on different pedagogical positions of the teaching-learning process. The research groups has desi...

The Premature Infant: Its Medical and Nursing Care

[Cross mapping of nursing diagnoses in infant health using the international classification of nursing practice].

This was a descriptive, retrospective study, with a quantitative method, with the aim of analyzing the nursing diagnoses contained in the records of children of 0 to 36 months of age who attended infant health nursing consults. A documentary analysis and the cross-mapping technique were used. One hundred eighty-eight different nursing diagnoses were encountered, of which 33 (58.9%) corresponded...

The Adopted Child

Mrs. Ellison, from a wide experience of social work, writes about the history of the background of adoption and of the emotional problems involved. She describes the social difficulties, especially the housing shortage, which to-day makes it hard for many to achieve the conditions of family life. Her stories from casehistories, however, make the issues appear too simple and advocate adoption as...

Nursing Intervention in Infant Mental Health: Enhancing Mother-Infant Interaction and Self-Esteem of Adolescent Mothers

The study was an exploratory pilot study in which subjects consisted of adolescent mothers and their infants in Japan. Background: Japanese adolescents giving birth to their babies are increasing although only at a rate of 1.4%. They chose to give birth more often instead of abortion than in past years. In Japanese society, it is not easy for an adolescent to be recognized as a mother because t...