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Children With Developmental Disabilities At A Pediatric Hospital: Staff Education To Prevent And Manage Challenging Behaviors, Norah L. Johnson, Joel Lashley, Alice V. Stoneck, Annette Bonjour
Children With Developmental Disabilities At A Pediatric Hospital: Staff Education To Prevent And Manage Challenging Behaviors, Norah L. Johnson, Joel Lashley, Alice V. Stoneck, Annette Bonjour
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Children with developmental disabilities may get frustrated in unpredictable hospital environments. Frustration may escalate to challenging behaviors, which are a safety concern and may contribute to staff and patient injuries, use of restraints, and procedure delay or cancelations. The purpose of this article was to describe a pilot staff education program on preventing and managing challenging behaviors of children with developmental disabilities at a pediatric hospital. The 2-hour-long education (1 hour on-line and 1 hour instructor led) content focused on family-centered care and communication skills, including verbal judo™ modified for use in the health care setting. Participants in the instructor-led …
Low Health Literacy: Overview, Assessment, And Steps Toward Providing High-Quality Diabetes Care, Andrea Wallace
Low Health Literacy: Overview, Assessment, And Steps Toward Providing High-Quality Diabetes Care, Andrea Wallace
Andrea S. Wallace
Approximately half of all Americans do not understand written and verbal health information well enough to take appropriate action. For chronic conditions requiring patients' ongoing self-management, limited literacy may be a powerful barrier to achieving optimal outcomes. Because low literacy is associated with a number of psychosocial variables that also act as barriers to self-management, health literacy experts recommend that efforts to alleviate the burden introduced by low literacy be addressed not only by developing means of increasing patients' understanding, but also by integrating such efforts into systems aiming to improve self-management support across the continuum of patient care. This …
Special Report: Nursing. A Research-Based Sibling Visitation Program For The Neonatal Icu... Reprinted From Critical Care Nurse, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1997, Innovision Communications, Aliso Viejo, Ca, L. Montgomery, Charmaine Kleiber, A. Nicholson, Martha Craft-Rosenberg
Special Report: Nursing. A Research-Based Sibling Visitation Program For The Neonatal Icu... Reprinted From Critical Care Nurse, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1997, Innovision Communications, Aliso Viejo, Ca, L. Montgomery, Charmaine Kleiber, A. Nicholson, Martha Craft-Rosenberg
Martha J. Craft-Rosenberg
No abstract provided.
Information Needs Of The Siblings Of Critically Ill Children, Charmaine Kleiber, L. Montgomery, Martha Craft-Rosenberg
Information Needs Of The Siblings Of Critically Ill Children, Charmaine Kleiber, L. Montgomery, Martha Craft-Rosenberg
Martha J. Craft-Rosenberg
This study explored parental and sibling perceptions and feelings about sibling information needs during a pediatric admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). Using a qualitative research design, parents (n = 14) and school-age siblings (n = 12) of children who were patients in ICU were interviewed using open-ended questions. Themes of information that the parents report having given to the siblings were similar to the themes that siblings report having heard. However, parents reported that the siblings had numerous questions about the reasons for hospitalization and expectations for the future of the family. The findings indicate that parents may …
Committee Meetings: An Electronic Alternative, Barbara Rakel
Committee Meetings: An Electronic Alternative, Barbara Rakel
Barbara A. Rakel
All too often, meetings are called without much thought as to whether or not they are necessary, wasting the staff's time and the organization's money. Sharing information and gathering input through electronic mail eliminates unproductive meetings and increases member productivity.
Adult Children's Perceptions Of Critical Caregiving Conversations With Their Aging Parents: A Pilot Study, Wendy S. Cregg
Adult Children's Perceptions Of Critical Caregiving Conversations With Their Aging Parents: A Pilot Study, Wendy S. Cregg
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The purpose of this qualitative pilot study was to describe adult children's perceptions of critical caregiving conversations between themselves and their aging parents; barriers to these conversations; factors that facilitate these conversations; and the support from health care providers that adult children believe would help facilitate critical caregiving conversations between themselves and their aging parents. The overall purpose was to increase understanding of family communication processes that promote health as families age. Focus group interviews using a semi-structured interview guide were conducted with 16 adult children with caregiving experience of their aging parents. Data analysis was conducted utilizing Leininger's phases …