Introduction: Pediatric nurses may stumble upon more than one complaint because of bullying in their workplaces. Workplace bullying of pediatric nurses leads to direct negative impact on their relationship with the children under care and their parents. Aim: To find out the relationship between workplace bullying against nurses and their bullying behaviors towards children. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used. Settings: Six Pediatric Medical Units of Alexandria University Child's Hospital (AUCH) -at Elshatby, Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: All staff nurses (120) who worked with children in the previously mentioned settings. Tools: Three tools were used, Tool I: Nurses' Characteristics Structured Interview Schedule, Tool II: Workplace Bullying Scale, and Tool III: Nurses' Bullying Behaviors towards Children Observational Checklist. Method: Every nurse was interviewed individually to collect data about nurses' characteristics. The Arabic translated Workplace Bullying Scale was disseminated to every studied nurse individually and it was filled down by the self-report method. Every studied nurse was observed individually for three times in three different shifts to assess his/her bullying behaviors towards children using Nurses' Bullying Behaviors towards Children Observational Checklist. Results: The total score of Workplace Bullying Scale showed that 65.8% of participating nurses had been bullied during their work hours. Nurses' bullying towards children was scored as 14.2%, 33.1%, 32.5% for the physical, verbal, and social behaviors respectively. There was a weak positive correlation between the total score of workplace bullying against nurses and their total score of bullying behaviors towards children with χ2 = 4.003, P= 0.04 and r=0.1. Conclusions: There was a significant positive correlation between workplace bullying against nurses and their bullying behaviors towards children. The strongest correlation was between workplace bullying and verbal bullying behaviors. The most common verbal bullying behaviors against children were name-calling and intimidation.
Background: Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is the most common cause of death or serious neurological injury resulting in life-long disability among infants and young children less than 5 years of age. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of an evidence-based prevention program for nurses on the period of PURPLE crying in infants and shaken baby syndrome. Study design: A quasi-experimental (pre-post-test) research design was used to achieve the aim of this study. Sample: A convenient sample was selected of 100 pediatric nurses from (PICU &NICU) and outpatient pediatric clinic in Assiut University Children's Hospital.. Tools: Three tools were used to collect the needed data. Tool one: It was composed of three parts: Part one: Personal data of studied nurses. Part two: Shaken infant syndrome knowledge assessment questionnaire. Part three: It was included a nurse's knowledge assessment questionnaire on the PURPLE Crying Period. Tool Two: Nurses' thoughts and attitudes about shaken baby syndrome hazards. Tool Three: Scale of Infant Crying Knowledge. Results: 65 % of nurses had a satisfactory level of knowledge about the period of PURPLE crying in infants which increases to 96% post-test. in the pre-test, 73% of nurses had appropriate beliefs and attitudes regarding shaken baby syndrome hazard while in the post-test most of the nurses (89%) had appropriate believes and attitudes with a highly statistically significant difference between the nurses believes and attitudes in pre and posttest (P=0.004). Conclusion: Implementation of an Evidence-Based prevention program had a positive effect on understanding the period of PURPLE crying in infants which reduced the hazards of Shaken Baby Syndrome in infants. Recommendations: Nurses should teach parents and give them a booklet about the period of PURPLE crying and practices to prevent hazards of shaken baby syndrome on the infants discharge from PICU or NICU.
Background: COVID-19 epidemic is rapidly increasing throughout the world . It is an important public health crisis which threat the humanity. Pediatric nurses are at the frontline of fighting against COVID-19. Nurses are faced with various challenges through the provision of care to provide high quality of nursing care for children and their family. So, this study aimed to identify the challenges facing pediatric nurses throughout the provision of nursing care for children with COVID-19. Design: Descriptive research design was used. Setting: This study was carried out at isolation pediatric unit in Assiut University Children Hospital. Subjects: Convenience sample of (33) pediatric nurses have participated in this study. Two tools were used in this study. Tool I: Structured interview questionnaire sheet for nurses. Tool II: Challenges facing pediatric nurses during COVID-19 crisis. Results. High Mean and SD of psychological challenges of pediatric nurses followed by challenges related to the organization's inefficiency in supporting nurses, physical challenges and finally challenges related to the nature of the disease (covid19) with Mean and SD were 12.9 ± 2.66 ,11.48±2.43, 11.36±1.78 & 8.0±1.80 respectively. Conclusion: Most of the studied pediatric nurses faced high challenges during COVID 19 and there was a statistically significant relationship between the total challenges level and personal data of the studied nurses except residence. Recommendations: Training programs are necessary to empower nurses with applicable preparations & manipulation for the challenges and experiences facing them to improve the skills that enable them to deal with challenges that help in controlling of crisis.
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