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Cet ouvrage regroupe l'essentiel des connaissances que l'étudiant en fin de Cycle des Sciences Infirmières, section Infirmière/Sage-femme, doit savoir en pédiatrie. Il se présente sous forme de situations / problèmes et est centré sur le Plan des soins.
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Pediatrics , Vocational Education , Educational Measurement , Nurses, Pediatric , Pediatric NursingABSTRACT
Background: The Road to Health Chart (RTHC) is a record chart carried by the caregiver that combines essential information on the growth monitoring of a child; immunisation; vitamin A supplementation; deworming medicine and other illnesses. It provides useful information to the parent and healthcare professional. This study sought to determine the challenges faced by professional nurses in monitoring the RTHC during consultation; the degree of implementation of the RTHC programme; and the most utilised aspect of the RTHC at Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital and surrounding primary healthcare (PHC) clinics. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 128 registered professional nurses. A self-administered questionnaire was used. Results: Ninety-six questionnaires were completed. Most of the respondents were female and aged 40-49 years. The majority of the PHC professional nurses stated that the challenges faced in monitoring the RTHC were staff shortages; lack of equipment; a work overload and unequal distribution of professional nurses on duty per shift. There was poor knowledge on how to identify malnutrition. The majority of PHC professional nurses had not completed their basic courses. Conclusion: PHC professional nurses voiced their concern that challenges encountered during consultations were direct reasons for their poor monitoring of the RTHC. The degree of implementation of the RTHC programme fell short of the norms and standards of the Department of Health and Social Development concerning child health care in South Africa. The most utilised aspect of the RTHC was the expanded programme on immunisation; vitamin A supplementation and deworming medicine
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Child Welfare , Delivery of Health Care , Follow-Up Studies , Health Personnel , Pediatric NursingABSTRACT
The fight against childhood blindness is being given top priority by the World Health Organization especially in regions of the world; like Nigeria where the gross income per capita is relatively low with up to 60.9 of them living in absolute poverty as at 2010. Avoidable causes of blindness in children needs to be eliminated through the development of sustainable and equitably distributed high quality children eye care services as part of our national health care system. However enough attention has not been given to achieve this yet. The purpose of this editorial is to highlight the challenges in childhood eye care in this country as well as discuss ways the current negative trend can be reversed
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Blindness , Delivery of Health Care , Nigeria , Ophthalmology , Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Ocular , Pediatric Nursing , Poverty , Tertiary Care Centers , Vitamin A DeficiencyABSTRACT
The preterm infant requires developmental care that is designed to minimise the stress that the infant experiences within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The aim of the study was to determine the effect of formal exposureto developmental care principles on the implementation of developmental care positioning and handling of the preterm infant by neonatal nurses. The first objective of the study was to compile an accurate scale for measuring the implementation of these principles with respect to the handling and positioning of the infant. Secondly; the study aimed at determining changes in the implementation of developmental care principles within a selected NICU after neonatal nurses were formally exposed to developmental care training. A quasi-experimental research design and a one-group pre-test-post-test approach were followed; and the Wilcoxon matched-pair signed-rank tests were used toexamine the changes. Results were statistically significant and indicated improvement with respect to the developmental care components that were measured. The recommendation was that developmental care principles be integrated into formal neonatal courses. Follow-up studies should be conducted to determine the reliability of the instrument for possible inclusion in routine assessment of the quality of the implementation of developmental care in the NICU