Journal of clinical nursing
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Caring represents an essential human need and the fundamental component of the nursing profession. A deep understanding of caring and the way it is expressed will help nurses to provide high-quality services and, more importantly, to understand nursing itself. ⋯ Caring is examined from anthropological, philosophical and psychosocial perspectives. In this paper implications for practice and research are outlined.
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This study investigates what makes parents of hospitalized children feel secure and factors influencing their level of participation. It also studies, whether the degree to which parents participate affects their child's pain and sleep during hospitalization. Questionnaires were distributed to a series of parents whose children were discharged from two paediatric surgical wards and one paediatric medical-surgical ward at two university hospitals in Sweden. ⋯ The results indicate a relationship between parental participation and their estimation of their child's pain. The study confirms a pattern, developed in a previous study, in how parents adopt different strategies affecting their participation during their child's hospitalization. Some parents who wanted to participate in more aspects of their child's care seemed to think that their child had less pain than parents who preferred more limited participation.