To provide optimal care, a veterinarian in a pediatric intensive care situation for a puppy or kitten should be familiar with normal and abnormal vital signs, nursing care and monitoring considerations, and probable diseases. This article is a brief discussion of the pediatric intensive care commonly required to treat puppies or kittens in emergency situations and for canine parvovirus type 2 e...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this study was to describe the usual psychological, emotional, and behavioral evaluations of overweight children and adolescents to target education of pediatric health care providers. A secondary aim was to determine whether certain provider characteristics were associated with recommended evaluation practices. METHODS A total of 203 pediatricians, 293 pedi...

Children with a chronic tracheostomy constitute an important subgroup of children who are at risk for potentially devastating airway compromise. There have been no standards published for their care and disappointingly little research. The Pediatric Assembly of the American Thoracic Society funded a working group with input from the disciplines of pediatric pulmonology, pediatric surgery, pedia...

Children with a chronic tracheostomy constitute an important subgroup of children who are at risk for potentially devastating airway compromise. There have been no standards published for their care and disappointingly little research. The Pediatric Assembly of the American Thoracic Society funded a working group with input from the disciplines of pediatric pulmonology, pediatric surgery, pedia...

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...

Background: This study aimed to assess Nursing Performance toward Enteral Feeding at Pediatric Critical Care Units. Subjects and methods: A descriptive was conducted pediatric critically care units (Pediatric Intensive Unit (PICU) – Neonatal Intensive (NICU) Emergency department) in the Children's Hospital affiliated Ain-Shams University Hospitals. Sampling: convenient sample composed o...