Nursing sick children

Nursing sick children.

Sick Children

[Sick leave and nursing personnel management].

Sick leaves in the nursing team demand immediate managerial actions when health care has quality as a goal. This descriptive-exploratory, quantitative study was performed with the purpose of characterizing that phenomenon in a university hospital between 2003 and 2007. The medical leaves added up to 3,207 leaves and 32,022 days lost. Leaves lasting up to two days accounted for 54% of the total ...

Toys for Sick Children

for children kept in bed during an illness, together with a list of appropriate toys at different ages, will be welcomed by mothers and nurses and should help to solve at least one of their problems which arise at such times. It can be obtained (price 3d. post free) from the N.A.M.H. Publications Department, 39 Queen Anne Street, W.l, or direct from Children's Play Activities, 94 Wimpole Street...

Paterson's Sick Children

PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE A CASE REGISTERED STUDY. By J. A. Baldwin, M.A., M.D. (Pp. xvi+ 340; graphs. £5.00). London: Oxford University Press for Nuffield Foundation, 1971. This is an important book and should be compulsory, if somewhat heavy, reading for all those involved in planning psychiatric services. The word "heavy" refers to the detailed content with many statistical tables, and not to the ...