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Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem May 2017To describe evidence of international literature on the safe care of the hospitalised child after the World Alliance for Patient Safety and list contributions of the...
OBJECTIVES
To describe evidence of international literature on the safe care of the hospitalised child after the World Alliance for Patient Safety and list contributions of the general theoretical framework of patient safety for paediatric nursing.
METHOD
An integrative literature review between 2004 and 2015 using the databases PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, Web of Science and Wiley Online Library, and the descriptors Safety or Patient safety, Hospitalised child, Paediatric nursing, and Nursing care.
RESULTS
Thirty-two articles were analysed, most of which were from North American, with a descriptive approach. The quality of the recorded information in the medical records, the use of checklists, and the training of health workers contribute to safe care in paediatric nursing and improve the medication process and partnerships with parents.
CONCLUSION
General information available on patient safety should be incorporated in paediatric nursing care.
Topics: Bibliometrics; Checklist; Child; Child, Hospitalized; Clinical Competence; Cross Infection; Delivery of Health Care; Drug Therapy; Humans; Interdisciplinary Communication; Medication Errors; Nurses, Pediatric; Nursing Assessment; Nursing Staff, Hospital; Patient Safety; Pediatric Nursing; Physician-Nurse Relations; Quality Improvement
PubMed: 28492813
DOI: 10.1590/1983-1447.2017.01.68020 -
British Journal of Nursing (Mark Allen...Nurses in Russia are trained by doctors who continue to define nurses' role after qualification. A children's hospital in Moscow, assisted by workers from a British... (Review)
Review
Nurses in Russia are trained by doctors who continue to define nurses' role after qualification. A children's hospital in Moscow, assisted by workers from a British charity, the Tushinskaya Children's Hospital Trust, is currently attempting to give nurses more autonomy and control. The project focuses on the examination and delivery of nursing care within the context of the Russian healthcare system. The aim of the project is to improve the holistic care of the hospitalized child and his/her family. Healthcare workers receive training in family-centered care, the emotional care of the child, interpersonal skills and infection control. Teachers, in conjunction with a Moscow medical school, run a course in paediatric nursing. A formal evaluation of the project is difficult because of the cultural differences in the measurement of quality. However, there are plans to use a model ward which was set up by Russian and British colleagues at the Tushinskaya Children's Hospital as an example of good practice to other hospitals in Moscow.
Topics: Child; Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Job Description; Nursing Evaluation Research; Pediatric Nursing; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Russia
PubMed: 9238917
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.1997.6.12.692 -
Paediatric Nursing Apr 2005
Review
Topics: Child; Hospital Volunteers; Humans; Laughter Therapy; Organizations, Nonprofit; Pediatric Nursing; Play and Playthings; Radio; United Kingdom
PubMed: 15861596
DOI: 10.7748/paed2005.04.17.3.30.c977 -
Paediatric Nursing May 1996
Review
Topics: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Child; Heart Arrest; Humans; Life Support Care; Nursing Assessment; Pediatric Nursing
PubMed: 8716798
DOI: 10.7748/paed.8.4.28.s21 -
Paediatric Nursing Jun 1999
Topics: Clinical Competence; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Licensure, Nursing; Pediatric Nursing; Professional Autonomy; Quality Assurance, Health Care; United Kingdom
PubMed: 10595150
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Paediatric Nursing May 2006
Topics: Benchmarking; Child; Child Health Services; Humans; Nursing Audit; Pediatric Nursing; Practice Guidelines as Topic; State Medicine; United Kingdom
PubMed: 16719035
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British Journal of Nursing (Mark Allen... Apr 2019Maintaining competence and keeping skills and knowledge in children's orthopaedic nursing alive are problematic in both the UK and Australia. The dearth of dedicated...
Maintaining competence and keeping skills and knowledge in children's orthopaedic nursing alive are problematic in both the UK and Australia. The dearth of dedicated postgraduate courses for this specialty has resulted in an array of unregulated in-house training, nurses' individual educational needs not being met and potential for children with an orthopaedic problem being put at risk of not receiving optimal care. This paper reports on a travel scholarship used to compare and contrast the UK with Australia, which supported an international scoping exercise to identify nurses' beliefs regarding expertise in children's orthopaedic nursing and explore provision for maintaining pertinent knowledge and skills. Potential ways to improve support for nurses in maintaining expertise in this field of practice are discussed.
Topics: Australia; Child; Clinical Competence; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Humans; International Educational Exchange; Nursing Education Research; Nursing Evaluation Research; Orthopedic Nursing; Pediatric Nursing; United Kingdom
PubMed: 31002546
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2019.28.8.518 -
Paediatric Nursing Nov 2002
Review
Topics: Child; Ethics, Nursing; Humans; Informed Consent; Nurse's Role; Patient Selection; Pediatric Nursing; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Restraint, Physical
PubMed: 12510330
DOI: 10.7748/paed.14.9.20.s20 -
Journal of Clinical Nursing Sep 2003There is currently debate about how the professional register for nurses is organized in the UK. Children's nurses, like the other minority registrants of mental health...
There is currently debate about how the professional register for nurses is organized in the UK. Children's nurses, like the other minority registrants of mental health and learning disabilities nurses felt threatened with the potential loss of a separate register. Children's nurses should be able to articulate their own unique body of knowledge. Using Fawcett's framework for the hierarchy of contemporary nursing knowledge, the development of children's nursing knowledge is examined to determine if, indeed, children's nursing is a separate discipline, by having its own metaparadigm of children's nursing, philosophy, conceptual model of nursing, nursing theories and, finally, empirical indicators. Although some levels of knowledge appear to have been developed, it is considered that children's nursing is still lacking in some levels of knowledge, thus suggesting that the continuing development of children's nursing knowledge is necessary.
Topics: Child; Humans; Nursing Theory; Pediatric Nursing; Philosophy, Nursing; United Kingdom
PubMed: 12919223
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00795.x -
Human Resources For Health May 2019This study sought to identify, as far as possible, the extent of the specialist children's nursing workforce in five selected African countries. Strengthening children's...
BACKGROUND
This study sought to identify, as far as possible, the extent of the specialist children's nursing workforce in five selected African countries. Strengthening children's nursing training has been recommended as a primary strategy to reduce the under-five mortality rate in African nations. However, information about the extent of the specialist children's nursing workforce in this region is not routinely available. Developing an accurate depiction of the specialist children's nursing workforce is a necessary step towards optimising children's health service delivery.
METHODS
This study used a convergent parallel mixed methods design, incorporating quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (questionnaire and interview) components, to generate data addressing three related questions: how many children's nurses are believed to be in practice nationally, how many such nurses are recorded on the national nursing register and how many children's nurses are being produced through training annually.
RESULTS
Data provide insights into reported children's nursing workforce capacity, training activity and national training output in the five countries. Findings suggest there are approximately 3728 children's nurses across the five countries in this study, with the majority in South Africa. A total of 16 educational programmes leading to a qualification in paediatric nursing or child health nursing are offered by 10 institutions across the countries in this study, with Kenya, Malawi and Zambia having one institution each and South Africa hosting seven. Data suggest that existing human resources for health information systems do not currently produce adequate information regarding the children's nursing workforce. Analysis of qualitative data elicited two themes: the role of children's nurses and their position within health systems, and the capacity of HRH information systems to accurately reflect the specialist children's nursing workforce.
CONCLUSION
The data generated provide an initial indication of the size of the children's nursing workforce in these five countries, as well as an overview of associated training activity. We hope that they can start to inform discussion about what would represent a viable and sustainable regional children's nursing workforce for the future.
Topics: Health Workforce; Humans; Kenya; Malawi; Pediatric Nursing; South Africa; Uganda; Zambia
PubMed: 31064414
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-019-0366-4