Nursing Support for Parents of Hospitalized Children

Abstract

The findings indicate that parents received a high level of support from nurses. Nurses can promote the quality of family care and should be aware of the importance of the several types of nursing support in meeting the requests of parents. It is important that nurses continue to develop their knowledge about types of communication with the family, especially in providing support for the parent role.

Viewpoint of Mothers of Premature Newborns about Nursing Supports in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

“…This study also found that according to the mothers, the least and most received nursing support were in the care giving support and parental esteem domains, respectively. In this regard, the findings of Valizadeh and Akbarbegloo [3], Seyedamini [17] and Sanjari et al [18] were in line with this study and indicated that according to the mothers the least and most received nursing support were in the care giving support and parental esteem domains, respectively. Another study by Morsy on two groups of mothers of children hospitalized in the general ward and the intensive care unit showed that the most and least received nursing support in both groups were in the parental esteem and care giving support domains, respectively.…”

“…In this regard, Sanjari et.al indicated that there was a significant difference between the mean emotional support and mothers' educational level. Also, there was a significant difference between supportive communication and gender of the newborn [18]. According to the results, it can be concluded that mothers wanted to get the highest amount of support in providing the best care for their newborns, but stated that they needed little emotional support from the nurses.…”

Perception of Jordanian mothers to nursing support during their children hospitalisation

“…) and Iran (Sanjari et al . ). The lower perception of Jordanian mothers of nursing support can be explained within two perspectives of the Jordanian healthcare system: nurses' knowledge and perception of the concept of mother's support and workload and shortage of nurses.…”

The needs of mothers to newborns hospitalised in intensive care units

“…In contrast, research at the Iranian Children's Hospital suggests stronger support of nursing personnel expressed by respondents in Iran. Here, the average score was 4.1 points 18 . Analysis of the type and degree of relationship between the two variables monitored (the relationship between mothers'perceptionof stress and staff behavior and perceptions of support provided to mothers by nurses), showed an an indirect linear relationship.…”