摘要:

Children's hospitals throughout North America have implemented many changes during the past 15 years. In recognition of the central role of parents in the lives of their children, policies and procedures have been implemented to enable parents to participate in various aspects of their children's care. However, the extent to which attitudes of nurses have changed to support a more active parental role is less evident. In a project to formulate a philosophy of nursing for a children's hospital, 22 nurses were asked a wide range of questions about nursing and family-centered care. Although all nurses expressed explicit support for the concept of family-centered care, some of their practices and beliefs suggested otherwise. This article describes their responses and suggests recommendations for future research, education, and nursing practice.

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014494

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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Health professionals concerned about the needs of parents with mental retardation are beginning to distinguish characteristics which facilitate and inhibit their parenting abilities. Child health is dependent on adequate parenting abilities. A composite of research findings has been derived to develop not only a risk profile that identifies potential problem areas, but also an advantage profile that identifies specific strengths of parents with mental retardation. The advantage profile uniquely focuses on parental assets that can be reinforced and used to foster child health.

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014495

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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Unintentional home related injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under the age of five years. Injury incidence in homes for these children continues at high levels despite injury prevention education programs for their caregivers. This article reports the development of an instrument that assesses injury prevention health beliefs and social influence perceptions in mothers of young children. Based on the Health Belief Model, the tool is composed of six scales that measure injury susceptibility and seriousness, benefits and barriers of injury prevention, self efficacy of injury prevention performance, and social influence. Reliability measurements showed that all scales produced high Cronbach alphas (.83 to. 98) and significant test-retest correlations (.30 to. 62,p≤. 05). Criterion related validity was established (-. 36 to -. 59,p≤. 05) for all scales except the seriousness scale. This instrument has utility for nursing investigations on the predictors of injury prevention behavior and for development of nursing interventions to prevent injuries in young children.

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014496

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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The death of a neonate, infant, or child is a tragedy that greatly impacts on many individuals' lives. Nurses and other health-care professionals provide care for not only the dying child but also the grieving parents and families. It is imperative that health care professionals are cognizant of the components and intensity of parental grieving and the critical role that they must assume in supporting bereaved parents prior to, at the time of, and after the child's death. The purpose of this study was to measure the intensity of parental grieving and collect information from bereaved parents regarding their perception of health care professionals' interventions. The results indicated that bereaved parents' intensity of grieving scores were generally higher than those reported on the TRIG norms. In response to The Bereavement Questionnaire, they were able to identify what health care professionals did or said that was helpful or unhelpful before, during, and after their child's death.

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014497

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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The study focused on the variables influencing the functioning of 62 families with MR (mentally retarded) persons, living at home, in various stages of the life cycle. Results demonstrated the importance of some father characteristics to maternal coping skills in two-parent households. Although mean maternal coping scores were not statistically different between two-parent and single-parent households, single mothers' coping skills showed strong negative associations with both the number of children in the household and the age of the mother. This was not true of mothers in two-parent households. Single-parent mothers also appeared to be considerably more dissatisfied with family functioning than mothers in two-parent households. The supportive role of older fathers in mothers' coping in two-parent households also was apparent. Clinical implications of the study point to the need for greater support for mothers of young children with MR, mothers who are sole caregivers, and parents with many children. Differential support to mothers and fathers of an MR person may be required over the life cycle.

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014498

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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The illustrated book of pregnancy and childbirthM. Martin facts on File, Inc., New York, NY, 1991 Reviewed by Kimberly Madison, MSN, RN, Wayne State University

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014499

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0146-0862    

DOI:10.3109/01460869109014493

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor