Karen J. Satz, R.N., M.S. is a Nurse Practitioner in maternal and child health on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. standing and incorporating that culture’s beliefs, values, and attitudes into their nursing care is an essential component of quality health care. Nurses on the Navajo Ki*servirtion are practicing within a distinct cultural group. Although many cultural groups coexis...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the nursing care of the child with cancer book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so popular this day. Beside...

Situation diagnosis using exploratory and descriptive scientific methodology (participant observation with descriptive statistical treatment) in order to identify nursing' practices in the area of health promotion during a nursing child health consultation. The 31 consultations observed (n = 31) showed that the majority of observations occurred in children younger than 2 years being the most di...

Animal studies have revealed complex processes of interaction between the mother and her young. As has been shown by Rosenblatt and his associates for rats and cats (Rosenblatt, 1971 ; Schneirla et al., 1963) and by Noirot (1972) for mice and hamsters, the behavior of the mother is adapted to the needs and behavioral capacities of the young. In humans, relatively little is known about the early...

Dr Tony Long is Professor of Child and Family Health. A Registered Child Health Nurse, his personal research programmes are in evaluation of early intervention in health and social care services for children and families, parental coping, and clinical research on quality of life outcomes for children and families after treatment for cancer. Michael Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Social Work. A qu...

The adolescent patient is often inadequately provided for within current health care systems as they are generally considered to be a healthy population group1. Studies report that they are often infrequent users of primary health care services such as general practitioners (GPs)2,3. In order to improve health care for this group, adolescent perspectives of health care services should be consid...

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the benefits and limitations of nursing interventions for promotion child development, according Bioecological Theory Human Development, by Bronfenbrenner. Method: an integrative review, from databases PubMed, Lilacs, CINAHL, Web Science Scopus, using descriptors: "child development" AND "nurses" OR "nursing". No time limit was set publications. The search perfome...

It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that every school-age child deserves a school nurse who has a baccalaureate degree in nursing from an accredited college or university and is licensed as a registered nurse through the state board of nursing. These requirements constitute minimal preparation needed to practice at the entry level of school nursing (American N...

The care of the pediatric patient with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an all-encompassing nursing challenge. Nursing vigilance is required to maintain a physiological balance that protects the injured brain. From the time a child and family first enter the hospital, they are met with the risk of potential death and an uncertain future. The family is subjected to an influx of complex m...

A tape measure, based on 50th centile weight for height and designed to permit easy drug dosage calculation, endotracheal tube size and DC cardioversion current dosages in childrens' emergencies, was tested for reliability by medical and nursing staff with varying paediatric experience. We found that the tape measure gave a reproducible estimate of weight and suggest that its use would facilita...