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1. Miss Zilpah
Nursing Instructor

2. The nurse is one of the important
components of the health team in
caring for children.
The pediatric nurse gives direct
bedside care to sick children,
guide families in their care for
their children during health and
illness, in hospitals and at homes.

3. It is the art and science of
giving nursing care to children
from birth through adolescent
with emphasis on the physical
growth, mental, emotional and
psycho-social development.

4. The good pediatric nurse must be:
Good observer
Honest and truthful
Sympathetic, kind, patient and cheerful
Love to work with children
Interested in family care
Able to provide teaching to children and
their families
Distraction skills
Flexibility
Communication

5. The goals of nursing care of children, based on
primary health care are:
1-Promote the healthy maturation of the child as
a physical, intellectual and emotional being
within the context of his family and community
(primary level)
2-Provide health care for the child who requires
treatment from disease(s) (secondary level)
3-Dealing with the Child's disabilities (tertiary
level) or rehabilitation which means maximizing
the child's potential level of his body function.

6. In Primary level
Through health education to the child and
his parents and providing child's basic
needs and immunization.
The nurse can:
1-Maintain child's health.
2-Help the child to achieve his optimal
growth and development.
Prevent diseases and their complications.

7. The nurse has to provide care to sick
children and their families by:
Assessing their needs.
Planning for their care .
Implementing the nursing care plan.
Evaluating children's condition and the plan
of care
Providing health teaching to children and
their parents

8. The nurse should assist
children to return to their
maximal level of functioning
following illness and or
disabilities.

9. Primary roles
Secondary roles
Differentiated practice roles
Advanced practice role

10. Primary roles
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
Researcher
Manager or leader

11. Secondary roles
Coordinator
Collaborator
Communicator
Consultant

12. Differentiated practice roles
Clinical nurse
Clinical care coordinator
Care manager
Advanced practice role
Nurse practitioner
Clinical nurse specialist
Case manager

13. Acute care setting, schools, clinics, physician
office, home health agencies, rehabilitation
centres, hospice programme, day care
centres, psychiatric centres, summer camps

14. Family centered care is philosophy
of care that acknowledges the
importance of the family unit as
the fundamental focus of all
health care interventions.

15. Health team should be flexible
and creative in caring for the
child within his family as their
intervention are based on the
needs of parent and child and
on their coping resources.

16. Although the family is the ultimate
coordinator of its own care, the
nurse can help establish a positive
environment for family members and
help them accept and utilize the care
provided.
She can guide family members
through the unknown of new
experiences in seeking holistic
health.
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17. Parents' education :-
One of the crucial roles that
paediatric nurses should undertake
with the child (according to his age)
and his family members.
The nurse has many opportunities in
providing health education to parents
and for children

18. Growth and development needs
Child's health promotion and maintenance
as nutritional need and hygienic care.
Preventive aspects such as (accident ,
prevention, immunization, periodic
examination).
Child's illness (nature of illness and care
needed).
Plan for child's discharge such as child's
medication, follow up, nutrition…..etc.

19. Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing -10th
Edition -Elsevier
Basis of pediatrics by Pervaz Akbar.8th Edition