The Parent-Staff Interaction Model of Pediatric Care.

Nursing models have had a long and often troubled history of development. Many that have been developed are not applicable in the pediatric setting. Models of pediatric care, though in use in many developing countries, are often not applicable within the cultures of those countries.

John Bowlby and James Robertson: theorists, scientists and crusaders for improvements in the care of children in hospital.

Aims: John Bowlby and James Robertson, two men who were extremely influential in the latter part of the 20th Century, combined scientific theory with evangelism to bring about changes in the way in which children were cared for in hospitals and other institutions. This paper discusses their work together, their theories and their influence on the care of children and paediatric nursing.

Background: Bowlby and Robertson collaborated early in their working relationship on research about separation of mother and child.

Perioperative care of children in a transcultural context.

As part of a large, comparative study of how children are cared for in developed and developing countries' hospitals, health care professionals and parents were asked questions relating to their beliefs about parental presence during anesthesia induction and in postanesthesia care units. Children were not questioned. The researcher compared parents' (n = 957) and staff members' (n = 780) responses between developed and developing countries.

Changes in transcultural nursing and its influence on the growth of Australian aboriginal children.

The health of Australian Aboriginal people is reportedly poor. This report discusses how nurses, over a generation, have helped improve the health of children at an Aboriginal community in Queensland, Australia. By delivering health services using the principles of transcultural nursing, the nurses were able to deliver culturally congruent nursing care.

A study of errors that can occur when weighing infants.

When infants are weighed at well baby or infant welfare clinics, the weight change from one visit to the next is used as a guide to the welfare of the child. Infant welfare clinic nurses are expert clinicians who use weight measurements as a rough indicator of well-being only, as it is well known by them that these measurements are fraught with error. This paper calculates the amount of error which was found in repeated tests of weights of infants, and in the weight changes brought about by biological variation.

Influence of families on the growth of children in an aboriginal community.

Objective: Some Aboriginal children have poor growth while others grow according to international standards. This study was designed to find whether these differences were related to families.

Methodology: Data were obtained on 13 families at Cherbourg Aboriginal Community in Queensland.

Patterns of weight growth in aboriginal children on Queensland communities.

We have used data from existing health records to study the birthweights and percentage weights for age (%W/A) of children in five Aboriginal communities in Queensland. The data are from cohorts of children born in the 1950s-80s at Cherbourg, the 1960s-80s at Yarrabah and the 1970s-80s in Woorabinda, Palm Island and Doomadgee. Birthweights have not changed significantly in any of the communities and generally remain below the international level.

The infant mortality rate at Cherbourg aboriginal community: an update.

The infant mortality rate (IMR) at Cherbourg Aboriginal Community in south-eastern Queensland remained high from 1906 to about 1955-60, but since then has dropped from over 200/1000 live births in 1956-60 to 16/1000 live births in 1986-90, compared with the 1987 rate for Queensland (9.2/1000) and Australia (8.6/1000).