This study reports on a literature review about child postoperative pain management by nursing professionals, in the period from 1993 to 2005. Three themes were identified: factors influencing nurses' management of child pain, interventions to relieve child pain, and nurses' assessment and response to children's pain experience. Child pain management is a complex act that involves elements of t...

BACKGROUND The density of the nursing and maternal child health nursing workforce in Mozambique (0.32/1000) is well below the WHO minimum standard of 1 nurse per 1000. Two levels of education were being offered for both nurses and maternal child health nurses, in programmes ranging from 18 to 30 months in length. The health care workforce in Mozambique also includes Medical Technicians and Medi...

Family participation in the care of a hospitalized child, both regarding its forms and dimension, has been a theme of study in nursing. The objective of this study was to analyze the organization of both nursing care and family care to the hospitalized child. This qualitative research was performed using semi-structured interviews with nursing staff of a school-hospital. Theme analysis was used...

OBJECTIVE to understand the interactions of nurses managing nursing care for the hospitalized child with a chronic condition. METHOD Theoretical and methodological references were used, Complex Thought and grounded theory, respectively. In the study 18 subjects have participated arranged in three groups: nurses, nursing technicians and family members. A semi-structured interview was used as t...

OBJECTIVE to investigate and analyze communication in palliative care contexts from the perspective of nurses, based on Humanistic Nursing Theory. METHOD this is a field study with a qualitative approach, in which ten nurses working in the pediatric oncology unit of a Brazilian public hospital participated. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The testimonies were qualitative...

Background: Child and adolescents growth and development knowledge is an essential part of Pediatric Nursing and it is also part of the nine essentials in Nursing Education. Although students find challenge to master this knowledge, limited literatures documented the knowledge deficit regarding child growth and development among nursing students. The purpose of this study was to assess senior n...