The effective use of the parent care unit for infants on the surgical service

Vermilion, Blair D.; Ballantine, Thomas V.N.; Grosfeld, Jay L.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3468(79)80491-1

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“…Nurses are available for consultation but are not routinely present. Vermillion et al (1979) and Caldwell & Lockhart (1981) report that the benefits to children of such schemes have been striking. Clearly not all child patients are suitable for this kind of care nor are all parents able to give it and guidelines are necessary for establishing such practice.…”

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Length of preschool hospitalization, multiple admissions and later educational attainment and behaviour

Haslum

1988

Child

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Differences in educational performance and behaviour at age 10 years between 2900 hospitalized and 11,000 non-hospitalized children in the 1970 British Births Cohort were described previously. In the present analysis associations were found between the length of time children spent in hospital before the age of 5 years and performance on vocabulary tests at age 5 and age 10. Children whose first admission occurred between 2 and 5 years of age were particularly likely to show this association. There was also a relationship between the length of preschool hospitalization and reading and mathematics attainment at age 10. It was the number of times a child was admitted to hospital before the age of 5, rather than the length of stay, which was associated with antisocial and anxious behaviour at age 5. The association was evident when the first admission occurred between 2 and 5 years of age and not before age 2. There was no association with such behaviour at age 10 once social and family factors and readmission between ages 5 and 10 were taken into account. There was a strong association between admission between ages 5 and 10 and behaviour scores at age 10. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for a need to develop the hospital educational service to ameliorate these associations and to review schemes which reduce the anxiety-provoking aspects of hospitalization for young children.

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Length of preschool hospitalization, multiple admissions and later educational attainment and behaviour

Haslum

1988

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“…During the 190s, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto introduced a scheme to allow parents to help care for their hospitalized child (MacDonald,199) and by 1978 most hospitals in Canada has taken steps to liberalize visiting hours to reduce what was now accepted as the harmful emotional effects of hospitalization (Roskies et al, 1978). In the USA, Care-by-Parent Units, which enabled mothers to be resident and care for their child under the supervision of a nurse, were being promoted to improve not only quality of care but enable cost savings for the hospital (Caldwell and Lockhart, 1981;James, 1972;Vermilion et al, 1979). Of particular interest, in view of the Platt recommendations, was that one large randomized controlled study in the United Kingdom not only identified how resident mothers benefited the children but also how nurses were not necessarily in favour of this.…”

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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Platt Report: from exclusion, to toleration and parental participation in the care of the hospitalized child

Davies

2010

J Child Health Care

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This paper commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Platt Report in the United Kingdom and traces the history of parental hospital visiting in relation to its recommendation that, 'Parents should be allowed to visit whenever they can, and to help as much as possible with the care of the child' (Ministry of Health, 1959: 38). It tracks how this goal was achieved and identifies how parents moved from being excluded towards being tolerated and finally accepted as participants in their child's care. This is set against a backdrop of changes in society, systems of healthcare and nurse education as well as trends in the care of the hospitalized children from national and international perspectives. It concludes that if we are to meet the needs of hospitalized children in the 21st century, the focus of research must now shift towards seeking their perspectives on care.

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“…Self-confident parents are more likely to participate in the care of their child, which in turn reassures the child and both the child and its parents feel more content ). Another advantage is that the parents feel more secure when their child has been discharged and returned home (Vermilion et al 1979).…”

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Parental Participation in the Care of Hospitalized Children

Hallström

Elander

1994

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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The purpose of this study was to investigate those parts of the care of hospitalized children that their parents perform, the nursing tasks the parents themselves felt they could manage and whether parents' and staff members' opinions coincided. A questionnaire was given to parents of children between one week and five years of age who were hospitalized at a pediatric surgical department during a 6-week period (n = 40), a similar questionnaire being distributed to all the staff (n = 44). The results indicate that parents stay with their children during hospitalization and that they take responsibility for their children's basic care and needs. Parents and staff members believed that parents might be able to take on a greater share of caring activities if they were given instruction and support, though there was disagreement as to which nursing tasks are appropriate for parents to take on.

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The effective use of the parent care unit for infants on the surgical service

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Length of preschool hospitalization, multiple admissions and later educational attainment and behaviour

Length of preschool hospitalization, multiple admissions and later educational attainment and behaviour

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Platt Report: from exclusion, to toleration and parental participation in the care of the hospitalized child

Parental Participation in the Care of Hospitalized Children

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