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    The pediatric nurse's role is complex and involves primary care, coordination, advocacy, education, and research focused on promoting children's optimal development and health. Key responsibilities include maintaining children's health through immunizations and education, helping children grow and preventing disease at the primary level. At the secondary level, nurses assess needs, plan and implement care, evaluate children, and educate families. They also assist children in returning to maximal functioning at the tertiary level. The role requires skills in general nursing care, resuscitation, monitoring, and preventing infections.

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    Role of Child Health Nurse

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    The pediatric nurse's role is complex and involves primary care, coordination, advocacy, education, and research focused on promoting children's optimal development and health. Key responsibilities include maintaining children's health through immunizations and education, helping children grow and preventing disease at the primary level. At the secondary level, nurses assess needs, plan and implement care, evaluate children, and educate families. They also assist children in returning to maximal functioning at the tertiary level. The role requires skills in general nursing care, resuscitation, monitoring, and preventing infections.

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    The pediatric nurse's role is complex and involves primary care, coordination, advocacy, education, and research focused on promoting children's optimal development and health. Key responsibilities include maintaining children's health through immunizations and education, helping children grow and preventing disease at the primary level. At the secondary level, nurses assess needs, plan and implement care, evaluate children, and educate families. They also assist children in returning to maximal functioning at the tertiary level. The role requires skills in general nursing care, resuscitation, monitoring, and preventing infections.

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    ROLE OF PEDIATRIC NURSE IN CHILD CARE

    The role of the pediatric nurse is constantly changing. These changes


    are as a result of expanding medical and nursing practice, emerging
    challenges in different aspects of child care, consumer demands & technological
    advancements.
    The role of the pediatric nurse may vary from one institution to others, but
    basic responsibilities remain the same.
    Roles of pediatric nurse are
    1. Primary care giver
    2. Coordinator and collaborator
    3. Advocate
    4. Health educator
    5. Consultant
    6. Counselor
    7. Case Manager
    8. Recreationist
    9. Social worker and
    10. Researcher

    1. Primary care giver: Pediatric nurse should provide preventive, promotive,


    curative and rehabilitative care in all levels of health services.
    In hospital, care of sick children includes comfort, feeding, bathing, safety etc.
    At community set up, basic responsibilities include health assessment,
    immunization, primary health care & referral etc.
    2. Coordinator & Collaborator: The nurse plays an extremely important role
    with the combination of health care team members. Nurse maintains good inter
    personal communication with the child, family and health team members.
    The nurse coordinates nursing care with other services for meeting the needs
    of child. For ex: physician, social worker, surgeon, physiotherapist, dietician
    etc.
    3. Nurse Advocate: The pediatric nurse acts as an advocate to safeguard the
    childs right, to assist & to provide best care from the health care team.
    Nurse acts as a representative for the child, family & other health care
    providers. Ex: it can range from consulting dietary department for special
    foods to arrange team meeting to discuss plan of care with other health team
    members.

    4. Health Health Educator: The nurses goal of health teaching is to provide


    information to the child parents and significant other about prevention of
    illness, promotion or health maintenance.
    Characteristics of nurse teacher includes
    4 C's
    C Confidence
    C Competence
    C Communication
    C Caring & empathy
    5. Nurse Consultant: The pediatric nurse can act as consultant to guide
    parents for maintenance and promotion of health. For ex: Guiding parents
    about feeding practices, accident prevention
    6. Nurse Counselor: Providing guidance to parents in health hazards of
    children and health them for own decision making in different situations.
    7. Case Manager: The pediatric nurse should organize care, monitor and
    evaluate patient treatment for successful outcome. She/he acts as a
    manager of pediatric care units in hospital clinics and community.
    8. .Recreationist: The pediatric nurse plays supportive role for the child to
    provide play facilities for recreation and diversion. It helps to decrease crisis
    imposed by illness or hospitalization
    9. Social Worker: Pediatric nurse can participate in social services or refer
    child & family t child welfare agencies for necessary support.
    10.Nurse researcher: Research is an integral part of professional
    nursing. Pediatric nurse should participate or perform research activities.
    It helps to provide basis for changes in nursing practice, improvement in
    the child health care and evaluate the care.
    ROLE OF PEDIATRIC NURSE
    The pediatric nurse's role is unique because o f d e v e l o p me n t a l
    i m ma t u r i t y a n d vulnerability of children. The goals of nursing care of
    children, based on primary health care are:
    I. Promote the healthy maturation as a physical, intellectual and emotional
    being within the context of his family and communities (primary level).
    2. Provide health care for the child who requires treatment from disease(s)
    (secondary level).Dealing with the child's disabilities (tertiary level). Therefore,
    the role of the pediatric nurse includes:
    I. In Primary Level:
    Through health education to child and his parents and providing child's basic
    needs and immunization, she can:
    1. Maintain child's health.
    2. Help the child achieves his optima9 growth and development.
    3. Prevent diseases and their complications.
    II. In Secondary Level:
    The nurse has to provide care to sick
    children and their families by:
    I. Assessing their needs.
    2. Planning for care.
    3. Implementing the plan.
    4. Evaluating children's condition.
    5. Providing heath teaching to children and their parents
    III. In Tertiary Level:
    The nurse should assist children to return to their maximal level of
    functioning following illness and /or disabilities.'
    As a nurse depends on
    Education
    Experience
    Job structure
    Professional demand
    Preventive care
    Promotive care
    Curative care
    Health education
    Restoration health
    Co-ordination

    e) Nursing task and skill:


    General nursing care:
    Monitoring of vital signs

    Administration of fluid and electrolytes and drugs

    Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

    Nursing procedures

    Resuscitation skills

    Specialized nursing and monitoring skills

    Vaccination

    Prevention of nasocomial infection

    Universal precaution

    Through the international activities of WHO (world health organization),


    IMCI-(Integrated Management of Child hood Illness), UNICEF (United
    Nations International Children and Emergency Fund) and other health
    agencies are providing to develop the level of child health care throughout
    the world.
    Now days the child care is very much improved it includes;
    Hospital environment for a sick child

    Advanced changes in medical and nursing care

    Expansion in independent role of the paediatric nurse

    Paediatric nurse practionnaire.

    Paediatric clinic nurse specialist.

    Paediatric nurse master clinicians.

    Old concepts New Concepts

    Disease (centered care) Child centered care


    Discourage the families on neglect Take care of female child with
    of the female child Immunization of tetanus
    Care of the women after Health education on planned
    becoming pregnant parenthoods and doing the
    maternal health
    Special care during the last Early identification & family
    trimester and the postnatal counseling based on bio chemical
    period to the child born with screening & chromosomal studies
    congenital anomalies and it helps to prevent congenital
    hereditary disorders. anomalies and hereditary disorders
    in children.
    Caring of child after the birth Caring the health of the child from
    only the day of conception.
    Care of the sick children in the Participate in the prevention of
    hospital illness and health promotion
    activities.
    Care the physical condition of Comprehensive cares of child in
    the child in hospital only his home community health
    centers. through
    Not allowed the parent to be Ensuring that the children must
    with the child in the hospital and have stay with them and participate
    reducing the visiting hours ward. in the care, flexible visiting hours
    in paediatric
    One of illness oriented One of health oriented.

    Only cleanliness and treatment Warmth and love oriented.


    oriented
    Curative and rehabilitative Health promotion activities by
    care to the children in hospital ensuring environmental stimulation
    only. and intelligent ma n i p u l a t i o n o f
    t h e e n v i r o n me n t , adequate play
    activities service related to the
    fertility, sex, education & counseling
    Adopt the indifferent Safe guarding and protect the
    attitude to child neglect & children rights by health providing,
    abuse by family and society. cultural practice & laws
    encouraging.

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