Recent research has highlighted the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes. The link to staffing has also been documented for selected conditions. To date, efforts to establish nurse-sensitive measures have focused largely on adults. This article describes the project undertaken to select and pilot 2 pediatric indicators of nursing quality care to be included in an ongoing national benchmar...

The simulation technology is rapidly expanding and has been used in several nursing programs around the world and in Saudi Arabia too. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of using a simulation based scenarios on the pediatric nursing students’ students’ knowledge, self-efficacy, satisfaction, and confidence. This study used Bandura’s Social Cognitive Learning Theory (1977; 1986) as...

Increased incidence of children diagnosed with cancer and survivors was an impact on changes in pediatric hemato-oncology nursing care. In this review article, it is aimed to investigate the new trends and recent care approaches in pediatric oncology nursing. The recent care topics were common in the literature as family-centered care, technology-based care, program development, primary care of...

Recently, new staffing rules for neonatal nurses in intensive care units (ICU) were issued in Germany, using categories of care of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine as blueprint. Neonates on intensive care require a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:1, on intensive surveillance (high dependency care) of 1:2. No requirements exist for special care, transitional care, and pediatric ICU pati...

1. Division of Child Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey 2. Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey 3. Dept. of Women Health and Diseases Nursing, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 4. Dept. of Pediatric Nursing, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul Univ...

The National League for Nursing (2012) reported that 42.1% of prelicensure RN programs identifi ed a lack of clinical space for student learning experiences was a major barrier faced by nurse educators. Identifi cation of pediatric clinical placement opportunities in hospital settings can be especially daunting; however, partnerships with other organizations interested in promoting health profe...

This study aimed to clarify the changes in nurses’ cognition about rate and likelihood of implementation daily ethical nursing items used pediatric care before after attending online workshops using Pediatric Nursing Care Model (PNCM). A 1.5-hour workshop was held twice over two weeks. total nine nurses participated program. These PNCM helped achieve original goals results revealed a positive o...

Surgical neonates need specialist medical and nursing care if their outcomes are to be improved. It needs a team of pediatric surgeons, neonatologists, pediatric anesthetists, and trained nurses. However, a key question in the management of these neonates is the place where they should be managed. A recent survey of neonatal surgical units in the UK in 2008 [1] revealed that surgical neonates w...