Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing

Children and Young People's Nursing at a Glance, by Alan Glasper, Jane Coad, Jim Richarson (Eds.).

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713630242 Reliability of the Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scale During Toddlerhood Eric A. Hodges a; Gail M. Houck b; Thomas Kindermann c a Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA b Oregon Health & Science Uni...

Home oxygen therapy for infants and young children with acute bronchiolitis and other lower respiratory tract infections: the HiTHOx program.

BACKGROUND Acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) including bronchiolitis, is one of the leading causes of pediatric hospital admissions worldwide. Recent studies have demonstrated that some children with acute bronchiolitis can be successfully managed using home oxygen therapy. AIM To report the impact of a Hospital in The Home Oxygen therapy program (HiTHOx) for selected infants and...

The role of the pediatric nurse practitioner in the comprehensive management of pediatric oncology patients in the inpatient setting.

The role of the pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in the comprehensive management of pediatric oncology patients in the inpatient setting was examined at a large tertiary teaching hospital. This article shows role responsibilities including new diagnosis teaching, procedures, routine chemotherapy, patients' comprehensive medical management, coordination of nursing care across settings, phone t...

Parent-mediated reading interventions with children up to four years old: a systematic review.

Research demonstrates that literacy and academic achievement are predicated on the emergent literacy knowledge and skills children acquire from birth up to 4 years of age. Parents are children's first and most important language and literacy teachers, yet not all parents have the capacity to establish an adequate early literacy foundation. Efforts to address this situation have resulted in nume...