assignment help

bergren · Aug 26, 2003

Is this for a nursing school assignment? I think a lot of the information you are looking for has been posted to the boards before. Scroll through some of the tpics under pediatric nursing and then some of the sub peds specialties on allnurses: NICU, school nursing, camp nursing,

littlebear5521 · Aug 26, 2003

Yes this is for a nursing class. I just started LPN school a week ago. I want to go all the way and get my masters to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Thank you for your help.

bergren · Aug 27, 2003

I have heard, and perhaps some people can confirm, that some BSN programs no longer offer Pediatrics - that it is a grad school specialty. Peds is such a broad field - PICU, Peds ER, NICU, General Peds, School Nursing, camp nursing, etc.... Those fiedls all demand differnt characterisitics and talents. Of course an understanding the children must be treated according to their developmental level. I think the very most important thing is nurisng of children is the belief that you treat the whole family. You cannot just treat the child - the chid depends on the parents and the siblings health depends on how well the fmaily can handle the illness and the stress.

catz · Oct 4, 2003

this is a uk based site but gives an accurate description of the role of a rn child here.

ok thats not gonna work

here is wat they say

Registered Nurse: Child Branch

The work

Children's or paediatric nurses work with babies, children and adolescents who have acute illnesses, injuries or chronic conditions. Most children who are ill are cared for at home with help from the GP and the community nurse. Therefore, children who are admitted to hospitals usually have acute or chronic conditions, which require specialised medical or surgical treatment and nursing care. Nurses teach parents and carers to carry out treatments, some of which can be complex, so the child can go home as soon as possible. Nurses try to make the children's ward as informal and happy a place as possible.

Nurses also counsel and help parents to come to terms with their child's illness and encourage them not to neglect other members of the family while caring for the sick child. Children's nurses who work in the community give direct patient care and also have a teaching role. For example they teach older children how to carry out their own treatments. When working in hospitals, and sometimes also in the community, children's nurses are responsible for supervising health care assistants.

Hours and environment

Most nurses work in general hospitals. They will need to work some weekends and bank holidays. Shift work is common. Where possible however, sick children are treated in their own homes, so children's nurses increasingly work in the community. Many are based in health centres, where they work with doctors and other members of the primary health care team such as speech therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists.

Community paediatric nurses have regular contact with colleagues but they do much of their work alone. In rural districts they may spend a lot of time travelling.

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good luck with the assignment........never thought id say this but i miss studying.

vemiliob · Oct 12, 2003

I know that in your country, it might be a little different, but I think that the essence of pediatric nursing remains the same everywhere.

In my University the BSN program, do not contemplate neither maternal, nor pediatric nursing. I am not sure about other Universities because in my country we suffer a miss of uniformity between Nursing Schools. However, I am sure it exists as a post-grade, also as a residence of two or three years in some hospitals.

In Buenos Aires province, Pediatric Hospitals Impart an obligatory course of Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Neonatology to Nurses that want to initiate on one of those areas.

I myself am in the same position you are. My unique contact with pediatrics was at the E. Rs., and on ambulances, but four months ago, I decided to start on Maternity, and Pediatric area so talked to the chief of the area to ask for her permission and she accepted.

Now, I am working on it, alternating Maternity, Childbirth, pediatrics, sometimes neonatology, and what we call here "General internment", which includes: medicals, surgery, gynecology, traumatology, and so on, with patients of all ages.

Well, that is anecdotic only, but the important points to highlight are the relevant roll one has a teacher, specially with mothers of newborns, parents in general and sometimes the with other family's members.

Whether a childbirth or a child interned due some illness or trauma, parents, specially mothers get in with their child, sometimes for weeks, suffering also a kind of "regression state", becoming claimant and dependent of Nurses' attention, assertiveness and explanations, though, Nurses' affection.

Exactly as in other areas of our profession, the pediatric nurse (I guess "specially the pediatric nurse") must keep a balance between capacity for warm continence and a cold-blood required manipulating a child with invasive techniques.

Ever since, it has been a work full of satisfaction for my colleagues and me. (On that time, we lost no child). However, we know it cannot be always like that. I remember once, eight years ago, while making a practice on the ER of my Hospital School, the paramedics brought a mother with her toddler of four months in apnea.

During 45 minutes, half of the doctors and nurses working on that morning tried to help in some way to save that life. Her mother left her sleeping with her male sibling of eleven, and apparently, he rolled up and asphyxiated her. She founded him asleep on her sister when she came home at noon.

I still remember her crying out in sorrow contemplating that scene. I went straight to her with the firm intention of taking her in calm out of the ER scenario to a quiet place. She looked direct to my eyes and asked: what are they doing to my baby? For a second I noticed how my ice-blood warmed up dangerously to an out of balance emotional state. I was fasting her shoulders firmly; suddenly I left her and run out myself of that situation. Two psychiatrists came in my help bringing her to an empty room.

I never saw such amount of respectful professionals weeping without solace....

Well, even though I did not changed my mind. I learned that working with pediatrics has a danger that probably working with adults has not. In ten years I've seen many, many dead, entire families crying, adolescents in pieces after motorbike accidents, but nothing touched me deep enough to let a scar.

"If you can support a child dead, then you can be a pediatric nurse".

Good luck.