Nursing practices to overcome stress in mother of hospitalized children

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Pediatric Nursing Department. Faculty of Nursing. Helwan University

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BACKGROUND:The hospitalization of a child is often a critical event,
generating a considerable amount of stress among family members, particularly the mothers. Nurses play an important role in children’s hospitalization process. Provide for continual contact between child and mother). The goal of the nurse is to assist the child and mother to adopt positively to the hospital experience and to facilitate their hospital stay. Nursing support plays an important role in child hospitalization experience where mothers often perceive the environment to be stressful, Common understanding between the nursing staff and the child’s mothers can lead to providing higher-quality of medical attention. Minimize isolation and strangeness of mother by explain equipment and procedures for them. Involve mothers in caring for reduce over stimulation. Identify areas of deprivation necessary care and provide a substitute. Additionally, there are nursing practices to overcome stress in mothers of hospitalized children through four phases of hospitalization; Caring Practices at Diagnosis and Induction Therapy, Caring Practices During Active Therapy, Caring Practices During Maintenance Therapy and Caring Practices During Follow-up In the last phase,

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Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice
Volume 3, Issue 7
September 2024
Pages 136-146

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