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Care Homes are usually seen as the last refuge for older people but residents are sometimes required to move between homes for administrative purposes. There is concern that such moves threaten their well-being and survival. Relocations have been contested repeatedly in court. A rece...
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PMID: 21642641
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Providers and families that experience the service of pediatric home care nursing will attest it can be full of complexity and challenge. The logistics of making it all come together properly can be maddening and the emotional stressors involved can be exhausting. But when that ideal goal is reached...
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PMID: 21751698
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Parkinson's is a progressive neurological condition which can affect every-day activities such as walking and talking, with symptoms ranging from tremor, slowness of movement and muscle stiffness. Other non-motor symptoms include problems with sleeping, depression and anxiety and it is these that peo...
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PMID: 21471920
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Nurses are taught a variety of interventions to relieve patient suffering. They are often more comfortable with patient suffering that is physical in nature rather than psychological, existential, and spiritual. Remaining present for patients and families whose suffering cannot be ea...
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PMID: 21410090
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This study is the first conducted in Lebanon to evaluate the quality of pediatric palliative care (PPC). The parents' experiences in our country were similar to those described in other countries, religions, and cultures. Significant strengths and weaknesses in the management of the dying children,...
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PMID: 21394892
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This paper is a report of a further analysis of data from an ethnographic study of the nature of communication between children and health professionals in a child hospital setting.
There is a paucity of research on the nature of communication between health professio...
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PMID: 21091913
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To investigate recruitment processes across a range of clinical trials and from the perspective of parents, young people and practitioners to identify strategies to improve recruitment and its conduct across the spectrum of trials of medicines for children.
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PMID: 21443838
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Compelling scientific evidence suggests that a strong association exists between housing-related hazards and the health and safety of their residents. Health, safety, and environmental hazards (such as asthma and allergy triggers), unintentional injury hazards, lead-based paint hazards, and poor indo...
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PMID: 21563709
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The literature about the surgical treatment of the urologic patient shows an increased attention to the outcome measures related to the quality of life and satisfaction of the treated subject. In this context, a crucial position must be attributed to the quality of the relationships among all the sub...
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PMID: 21452162
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When there is no more hope of a cure during a child's treatment, the curative period makes way for a palliative phase through to the last moments of the child's life. This phase is both difficult and fundamental for the child and his/her family, as well as for the caregivers, who mus...
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PMID: 21702199
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The implementation of paediatric palliative care aims to fulfil objectives regarding the support provided for the child and his/her family in all aspects of care. It is guided by regulations and recommendations relating to pain relief, quality of life and support for families....
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PMID: 21702200
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In a general paediatric department, nurses may have to care for children suffering from severe life-threatening illnesses. When supporting the child and his/her parents, sometimes until the end of life, they must learn to manage their emotions and adopt a position which is both sympa...
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PMID: 21702202
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Present for around ten years in specialised paediatric departments, most psychomotor therapists have already been confronted with children approaching the end of life. In this context, psychomotor therapy takes into account the individuality of each child within his/her family dynami...
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PMID: 21702209
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Complex and demanding, paediatric palliative care at home is beginning to develop. How can a self-employed nurse, by definition isolated, care for a child approaching the end of life and his/her family at home? What resources and tools does the nurse have to provide this support?...
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PMID: 21702211
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Loïs, suffering from a malignant tumour, was supported until his death by a general paediatric department, with the collaboration of a mobile continuing care and support team and surrounded by his parents. The particularity of this multi-disciplinary support lies in the fact that th...
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PMID: 21702204
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Allowing a child to play until the end of his/her life, such is the objective which a paediatric nursing team has set itself The games must enable the child and his family to organise psychologically the emotional chaos provoked by impending death. They question and provide an answer...
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PMID: 21702205
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The return home of seriously ill very young children causes worry and upheaval in the family. The home hospital care team supports the child and his/her family enabling links to be forged between them, whatever the outcome of the illness, whilst respecting the rhythm of each family m...
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PMID: 21702210
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The study examined the ability of trained General Practitioners (GPs) to carry out guideline based diagnostics and therapy of dementia. The article reports the GP-related findings.
100 GPs took part in the prospective multi-centre study. 34 GPs started self-guided medical dementia care after attendi...
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PMID: 20979001
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To determine whether informed consent is adequately obtained by documentation of appropriate risks, benefits, alternatives, and procedure explanation for children who had a lumbar puncture (LP) in a pediatric emergency department (PED).
Authors agreed on the criteria for appropriate informed consent...
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PMID: 20881904
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On successful completion of nurse education programmes new graduate nurses are expected to meet the requirements for registration as a professional practitioner. Nurse educators need to collaborate with clinical colleagues to be responsive to changes in health care. Identifying challenging acute nur...
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PMID: 20167537
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Working with child patients and their families in the practice of plastic and reconstructive surgery is rewarding and risky. Technical training is understandably intensive. However, the importance of the work that is needed before an operation does not always attract the same attention. Surgery that...
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PMID: 20856017
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The objective of this study was to investigate the outcome of in-toeing referrals to a paediatric orthopaedic department. Two hundred and two patients referred to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh between July 2005 and March 2008 were retrospectively reviewed. Increased femoral antever...
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PMID: 20520580
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Federal law mandates that early intervention (EI) programs provide care using a family-centered model. The purpose of this preliminary study was to investigate (a) the relationship that develops between physical therapists and parents during EI and (b) a possible link between this relationship and E...
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PMID: 20608860
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We do not integrate support for the relationship between the baby and parents into antenatal parentcraft. Neither do we provide enough focus on the relationship in basic and post-qualification training or support for practitioners to integrate working with the relationship into their practice. The S...
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PMID: 20722327
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A critical shortcoming in the existing body of research addressing racial disproportionality in the child welfare system is the lack of inclusion of external stakeholders in attempts to understand and address this issue.This article reports the results ofa study designed to develop a deeper understa...
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PMID: 20632656
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In the United States, interest in early childhood development has grown dramatically over the past two decades and continues to expand.Increasing public support for programs and services that address the needs of young children and their families provides numerous opportunities for social work inter...
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PMID: 20632660
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Critically ill elderly patients facing crucial decisions about their future medical treatment routinely come under the care of hospital physicians who may have no previous relationship with them or their families. The majority of patients for whom this sort of decision must be made are unable to par...
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PMID: 20499772
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Congenital malformations occur in 2-3% of live births, and often represent a special diagnostic and management challenge. Few clinical guidelines exist to assist the neonatologist in the approach to diagnosis and initial management of the malformed newborn. To provide optimal care for these children...
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PMID: 21090093
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The field of neonatology presents a fascinating context in which hugely important decisions have to be made on the basis of physicians' assessments of the long term consequences of various possible choices. In many cases such assessments cannot be derived from a consensual professional opinion; the...
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PMID: 21089732
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Strategies for promoting the use of human milk in NICU Human milk has several advantages in the nutrition of very-low-birthweight (VLBW) and high risk infants admitted to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Limited data available demonstrate that at discharge from NICU breastfeeding rate is relativ...
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PMID: 21090094
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We can also say that supporting maternal feeding in NICU helps woman that probably lives a complicated relationship with her "being mother" and with her baby. We can help the couple mother-newborn and their family to build strong basement for their future relationship, whatever it will be. The main...
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PMID: 21090095
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