The National League for Nursing’s (NLN) fi nal report from the Think Tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education (2008) challenges the paradigm of the traditional “clinical rotation” and questions the practice of placing students exclusively in an inpatient unit to complete a set of tasks. This report prompted me, a veteran clinical instructor, to take a fresh look at how we structure the p...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the workload and size the nursing team using the scales TISS-28 and NEMS in a pediatric intensive care unit. METHODS An observational prospective study with a quantitative approach was conducted at the pediatric intensive care unit of a university hospital from Jan 1st, 2009 to Dec 31st, 2009. All children who remained hospitalized for more than 8 hours were included, wi...

OF ORIGINAL ARTICLE. The increase in population of the United States is occurring at a much more rapid rate than the increase in medical and nursing personnel available to maintain health services at an optimum level. Unless the pattern of furnishing health care, particularly to lower socioeconomic groups in both urban and rural areas, is drastically improved, these groups will suffer from incr...

OBJECTIVES to assess the construct validity and reliability of the Pediatric Patient Classification Instrument. METHODS correlation study developed at a teaching hospital. The classification involved 227 patients, using the pediatric patient classification instrument. The construct validity was assessed through the factor analysis approach and reliability through internal consistency. RESUL...

Powering-up Electronic Media for Child Health Promotion: A Project Developed to Enhance Student Learning of Pediatric Concepts and Child Health Initiatives an educational project exploring the relationship of electronic media and child health has been developed and implemented in a pediatric nursing course at a technical college. the goal of the project is to assist students in identifying, und...

Efforts to improve handoff practices among providers during shift changes are needed to augment patient safety, particularly among pediatric patients. To this aim, nurse faculty developed and enhanced a tool to standardize a thinking process for students during their pediatric clinical experience. The 30-Second Head-to-Toe checklist allows for rapid assessment of a child's condition and environ...

THE PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Nursing Society (PENS) is committed to advancing the art and science of pediatric endocrinology nursing. PENS members specialize in the nursing care of children with endocrine conditions, including those who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, 2012, p. 5) defines transgender identity as “...

Objectives To describe the characteristics of the nursing work environment, safety attitudes, quality of care, measured by the nursing staff of the pediatric units, as well as to analyze the evolution of quality of care and hospital indicators. Methods Descriptive study with 136 nursing professionals at a paediatric hospital, conducted through personal and professional characterization form, Nu...

Domestic violence affects the lives of many Americans, including children. It is imperative that primary care providers working with children, including pediatric nurse practitioners, understand the dynamics of domestic violence, recognize domestic violence, and intervene appropriately. Domestic violence places children at risk physically, emotionally, and developmentally. The effect on childre...

BACKGROUND Professionalism in nursing means the provision of medical and nursing services based on the best knowledge and skills, as well as on great responsibility for the undertaken actions. The opinions of patients and their families concerning professionalism, reflected in the level of satisfaction, contribute to the improvement of the quality of services offered. MATERIAL AND METHODS The...