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Unit 1 Introduction

This document provides an introduction to pediatric nursing. It defines pediatric nursing as the specialized area of nursing practice concerning the care of children during wellness and illness. The document outlines key principles of pediatric nursing including building relationships with parents and children, understanding that child behaviors are meaningful, and using local languages so parents understand. It also discusses current concepts, roles, and trends in pediatric nursing such as family-centered care, evidence-based practice, and health promotion.

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Unit 1 Introduction

This document provides an introduction to pediatric nursing. It defines pediatric nursing as the specialized area of nursing practice concerning the care of children during wellness and illness. The document outlines key principles of pediatric nursing including building relationships with parents and children, understanding that child behaviors are meaningful, and using local languages so parents understand. It also discusses current concepts, roles, and trends in pediatric nursing such as family-centered care, evidence-based practice, and health promotion.

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Unit 1:

Introduction.
INTRODUCTION

• The term paediatric is derived from the Greek words- pedia –child and iatrike-
treatment and ics- branch of science
• Paediatric means the science of child care and scientific treatment of childhood
disease.
• Paediatric is synonymous with child health
DEFINITION
“Paediatric can be defined as the branch of medical science that deals
with the care of childhood from conception to adolescent in health and
illness. It concern with prevention, promotion, curative and rehabilitative
care of children.”
Paediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and
adolescents, their growth and development, and their opportunity to
achieve full potential as adults. (Richard E.bberman in nelson's textbook
of paediatrics)
PAEDIATRIC NURSING
Paediatric nursing is the specialized area of the nursing practice
concerning the care of children during wellness and illness, which
includes preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care of
children.
CURRENT CONCEPT OF PAEDIATRIC
NURSING
Advocate for child and family
Communicate for child
Activate the child activity
Disseminate information for child
Educate the public about child health
Motivate people in care of child
Investigate available recourses
Collaborative care
PRINCIPLES
• The nurse should begin to build working relationship with the parents and children from time of
first contact with them
• The nurse should be aware that all behaviours of child is meaningful
• The nurse should accept the parents and child as they are
• Empathy for parents and children
• Acknowledge the parents right to decision concerning to their children
• Use local language so parents can understand
• Answer all questions of parents
N CE PT O F
CO
LD H E AL T H
CH I
Trends In Paediatric Nursing
• The current trends in the practice are based on research that have taken place n the field of
paediatric nursing. The common trends are as following:
Family centred care
High technology care
Evidence –based practice
Atraumatic care
Cost containment
Prevention and health promotion
ROLE OF THE PEDIATRIC NURSE

• The role of paediatric nurse is both caring and curing. Caring is a


continuous process in both wellness and illness. It refers a helping, guiding
and counselling. Curing refers to the act of diagnosis and management,
usually during illness.
• Paediatric nurse have the responsibilities of providing nursing care in
hospital, home, clinical, school and community where children and their
parents have health and counselling needs.
Cont…

• Primary caregiver • Child care advocate


• Health educator • Recreationist worker coordinator
• Nurse- counsellor and collaborator

• Social • Nurse consultant

• Team • Nurse researcher


• Manager
Preventive pediatrics:
Preventive paediatrics has been defined as “the prevention of
disease and promotion of physical, mental and social wellbeing of children
with the aim of attaining a positive health”. - Parul dutta

Preventive paediatrics comprises efforts to avert rather than cure disease and
Disabilities. It has been broadly divided into antenatal paediatrics and postnatal
Paediatrics.
CONCEPTS OF PREVENTIVE PEDIATRICS.
1. Family health
2. Maternal & child health (MCH)
3. Reproductive & child health (RCH)
4. Breast feeding
5. Baby friendly hospital initiative (BFHI)
6. Weaning
7. Integrated child development scheme (ICDS)
8. Under five clinic
9. Immunization
10. School health service
Issues In Child Health Nursing:

• Ethical issues
• Legal issues
• Conceptual issues
• Cultural issues
• Social issues
• Genetic issues
• Research issues
1. Ethical issues

• Withdrawing and with holding life support


• Ideal observer theory
• Omniscience
• Omni percipience
• Disinterest
• Dis passion
• Consistency
2. Legal issues:

• Informed consent
• Standard of care and assurance
• Short staffing and staff floating
3. Conceptual issues:

• Autonomy.
• Competence.
• Beneficence.
• Paternalism.
• Truth telling.
• Confidentiality.
• Conflict of interest.
4. Cultural issues:

• Aware of the cultural beliefs and interactive styles


• Assess the effect of them on a particular child and family.
5. Social issues:

• Broken families
• Co habitation
• Adoption • Child abuse
• Child labour
• Disturbed home situations • Child marriage
• AIDS in children • Infanticide

• Handicapped children- physical, mental or social.


Cont…
• Prevention of handicapped:
Genetic counselling
Identification and early treatment of high risk group
Immunisation
Proper nutrition of mothers and children
 Health care of pregnant mothers
6. Genetic issues:

• Insemination with artificial donor


• Surrogate mothering
• Antenatal detection of abnormalities and MTP
7. Research issues:

• Right to privacy
• Right to informed consent
• Truth in experimentation
• Confidentiality
INTRODUCTION OF
VITAL STATISTICS
Statistics is a science of collection of numerical facts and drawing
conclusion from such data.

 Vital statistics are statistics relating to vital events of life name births,
death, marriage and sickness that occurring in community.
DEFINITION:

Vital statistics is the numerical description birth, death, abortion,


marriage, divorce, adoption, and judicial separation.
Important Vital Statistical Rates
• Birth rate
• Specific death rate
• Perinatal mortality rate
• Neonatal mortality rate
• Postnatal mortality rate
• Infant mortality rate
• Under five mortality rate

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