The Importance Of The Nurse During Interacting With The Child And Family

It can be very frustrating at times dealing with the family members of the older patient that I see in the emergency room. I have such limited time to take care of everyone’s needs before the next patient comes in by ambulance that I often forget how the family feels seeing their parent on an emergency room cart in pain and confused. My definition of the comfort I can provide in the emergency room are often very different from the family’s expectations. According to Gerontological Nursing (Tabloski, 2014), the attending nurse needs to understand the patient and family’s goals, wishes and values to attend to their

The child's mental, physical and medical health are the main priority and when the parents are resistant to treatment, we sometimes have to take a legal approach in order to provide the best quality care available. Provision 4 of the Nursing Code of Ethics states "The nurse is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of task consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimum patient care" (ANA 2014). This provision surrounds my position of being a nursing manager completely! Being a nurse manager and directing youth care workers of the facility is an extremely big responsibility. It is my duty and obligation to ensure the safety of not only the children in the facility, but also the employees that work there. I am accountable both professionally and personally, even when I am not physically in the building. It is my responsibility to make sure all jobs are delegated appropriately and all those concerned are safe plus secure with the best available care possible. Only some of the employees have formal education or training, such as nurses... most employees are actually trained in the facility by the managers and the nurses. I am responsible for making sure the youth care workers and other personnel are educated on proper interaction, safety, infection control, policies and procedures from a medical standpoint.

In 2015, I started working as a pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse, and throughout my journey, I provided care to a various family with children with special need. Every family is different, some were made of a single mother and her children, some were extended families, and most importantly every mother was at least eighty percent involve in her childcare. During my nursing clinical rotations and my few trips to doctor’s appointments, I tend to see more women accompany their children to medical visit or any other event. I believe that women around the world are to encourage and celebrate the amazing care they provide to their children. I also believe that the bond between mother and child is a very special alliance that needs to be Cherise.

Do the nurses care about the newborns or not? Most people think that the nurses are compassionate and caring. In a hospital, the nurses are the ones who have to make sure that the patients are well and take their medications on time. They spend a lot of time with the patients and always try to make them feel comfortable. For example, according to the essay “Role of caring in the nursing profession” caring is the most important role in nursing (2).

The nurse explored in this essay is registered nurse, midwife and child health care nurse Ellen Savage. Savage joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in early 1941, here she served in the Australian General Hospital in Concord, Sydney (Gendek, 2007; Prior, 2013). March of 1942, Savage was posted to board the Australian Hospital ship the Centaur where she would collect injured service men from Papua New Guinea (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, n.d.; Gendek, 2007). Early morning of the 14th of May the Centaur was hit by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine causing the ship to sink in under three minutes (Gendek, 2007; Prior, 2013). Ellen was the only nurse to survive the attack, however she did obtain severe injuries of her own including fractured ribs, fractured nose and palate, perforated eardrums and multiple bruising including a badly bruised eye (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, n.d.; Gendek, 2007; Prior, 2013). Ellen Savage worked selflessly and ceaselessly throughout the rapid destruction of the vessel regardless of her own injuries, rationing little food and water that was available as well as providing any care she could manage to the survivors suffering from burns, fractures open wounds and preparing burials for those that died (Gendek, 2007). Ellen Savage continued to serve in the Australian Army Nursing Service at the Australian General Hospital for 4 years following the ordeal ending her army service on the 6th of February 1946 (Gendek, 2007). Nurse Savage decided to further

(2006) states that one of the biggest concerns of families during their study was being in the way of staff members. Most of patient rooms are small and hard to manoeuvre without any equipment or people. Families thought being in the room could cause a barrier to proper care thus not asking to be present. Taking the benefits and major family concerns regarding resuscitation I think the family should be asked to exit the room or be moved to an area out of the way so the team can set up their equipment and so a staff member can explain what is going on to the family without being a distraction or in the way. During that time the nurse can determine whether or not the family would like to be present and start to mentally preparing the family for what they will be potentially seeing before reentering the

In the realm of nursing, family-centered care is extremely important to developing the individual nurse’s authentic presence (Watson, 1985). As a nurse, one needs to be able to successfully connect to patients, while also involving the families of the patient in the healing process. Pediatrics was the first subdivision of nursing care to begin implementing parental involvement, as it was the most effective way to keep children calm while undergoing various stressful procedures (Dokken et al. 2015). Through the incorporation of relatives to the care setting, the young convalescent will feel a sense of comfort in the hospital or emergency room, which can be quite daunting even for some adults. However, parents are not the only key figures in a child’s life. The inclusion of other family members, such as aunts, uncles, and siblings, has reflected in an increase in both quality of care as well as safety for hospitalized pediatric patients (Dokken et al. 2015). I chose the article “Family Presence and Participation: Pediatrics Leading the Way… and Still Evolving” by Deborah Dokken, Kelly Parent, and Elizabeth Ahmann. This article reflects on the importance of family-centered care in the discipline of nursing, and details

During the second semester in the RN program, the author worked as a student nurse at a pediatric clinical site in a Children’s hospital. From the first greeting, the preceptor for one day did not welcome the student nurse at all and even said that she did not like to have a student nurse so never bother her with questions. The student nurse was supposed to administer medications in the presence of the student’s professor or the nurse, but the preceptor refused to let the student give them saying she could not rely on student nurses and did not want to take any risk for her patients. For the entire day, the student nurse could not perform many things for her patients except cleaning and assisting with ADLs. The nurse blocked the student’s learning opportunities and made her feel useless and helpless.

The concept of “Pediatric Adaptation to Hospitalization” has been a topic talked about since the early sixties, if not before. When a child is hospitalized they experience a wide variety of emotional stressors. Separation from family, stress, isolation, anxiety, depression, fear, unfamiliar surroundings, normal routine interruption, lack of understanding (“why do I feel this way”, “why is this happening to me”), pain, and continuous stranger interaction are a few of the feelings and emotions that children experience during hospitalization. Langford (1961) stated “This increased body of knowledge about the emotional effects of illness and hospitalization has been reflected in changes in the practices of many pediatric hospitals and services in order to lessen the psychological hazards to their child patients”. Although the topic has been discussed, a true definition has not been formulated.

This clinical experience was my first nursing environment I been exposed to since immigrating to America. Since this was the case, I did not have any expectations and I went to the clinical with an open mind and ready to experience American nursing. However, on first impressions I was extremely let down. I have previously mentored nursing students and I find first impressions extremely important in order for a students learning experience to be valuable. There was a certain feeling on my arrival that nursing students were a little unwelcome. The clinical experience within the children’s home is not an environment everyone would enjoy, or feel comfortable within. I feel a warm welcome on arrival, a tour of the home and an introduction to the children would be extremely beneficial to future students learning

This past week was my fifth full week on my unit. I am currently on 4 west and occasionally 7 east, both of which are medical/surgical floors. Four west is my primary unit and also contains some PICU rooms. I have been able to build rapport and establish therapeutic relationships with a few chronic patients, and fortunately, I have been able to create professional relationships with staff. While typically staff on this unit are not as receptive to child life presence during procedures or medical assessments, I have had the opportunity to advocate for and demonstrate child life services during medical procedures/assessments. During my medical/surgical rotation I have been focusing on the following modules from the ACLP internship

Pediatric nurses get to care for the littlest patients in the hospital — patients who may be happy to see them. Besides, getting to care for appreciative patients, pediatric nurses enjoy to some degree higher salaries and greater income potential than some of their peers. Their job isn’t limited to equitable caring for children; pediatric nurses likewise help parents with information on children’s health and preventive measures to keep their children out of the hospital. Being a pediatric nurse is a exceedingly regarded profession because of its requirements, intensive training, and its wide variety of opportunities such as general pediatrics, PICU, and pediatric oncology nursing.

In today’s society, the definition of family has greatly evolved from the traditional meaning. Family can consist of more than just blood relatives. It can contain groups of people living together who love and support each other (Kaakinen, Gedaly-Duff, Coehlo, & Harman Hanson, 2010). As a nurse in an ICU you must take care of the patient as well as the family. I will be discussing a time I cared for a patient and the experience I had with their family. I will state the different roles within the family as well as my role as a family healthcare nurse.

Patient’s in the NICU are considered to be very tiny and fragile and immunocompromised due to their immature organ systems which can lead to many dangerous medical problems. Patricia W. Stone states “maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care” (Stone, 2008). The patient’s safety should always be a top concerned for a nurse because in a health care facility the purpose is to heal the patient and get them on the road to recovery. Nurses must learn from the errors of the past and use their knowledge to improve the quality of nursing to the patients to ensure if errors do happen again that the use of evidence-based practices are put into place to improve their outcomes. According to Higher Quality of Care and Patient Safety, “Registered Nurses (RNs) are instrumental in achieving multiple care goals, including promoting infant health and clinical stability, maintaining the integrity and cleanliness of central catheters, and preparing families for their role in infant care and successful transition it home” (Lake, 2016). Nurses are reasonable for the education of the families of the patients to ensure that the best quality of care for the patient is maintained outside the hospital to ensure the best medical outcome for the infants.

The most important point of nursing is caring for patients. It is equally important to apply customer service skills with taking care of sick patients. It is a demanding job that one should not take lightly. As nurses, we must communicate with staff, family, and medical doctors in overseeing the patients. When the family of a patient comes to the nurse at the same time, such situations can be very challenging to deal with. I saw many nurses have to deal with this type of situation on almost on a daily basis. I noticed that it could happen on any shift, at any time. Some would think that at night the nurses do not have to deal with family as much, but these situations may arise then as well. Professionalism plays a key role in how a nurse interacts with patients and their families.