Exploring the Needs for Support of Pediatric Nurses Caring for Children with a Mental Health Disorder Hospitalized in Non-Psychiatric Units.

This qualitative study explored the experience and the needs for support of pediatric nurses caring for children with a mental health disorder hospitalized in non-psychiatric units in a health organization in Canada. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 nurses. Content analysis revealed two main themes: (a) nurses are challenged by the lack of knowledge, the gap between access to mental health resources and the basic role of only ensuring safety.

Recording practices and satisfaction of hemophiliac patients using two different data entry systems.

Record keeping is integral to home treatment for hemophilia. Identified problems with paper diaries include suboptimal compliance and questionable data validity and quality. The effects of an electronic data recording system, Advoy, on data quality, patient adherence, and satisfaction were examined.

Barriers and facilitators to caring for individuals with stroke in the community: the family's experience.

Purpose: This project explored caregivers' perceptions regarding the barriers and facilitators to undertaking the post-stroke caregiving role, particularly as related to the health care system, with the ultimate goal of identifying potential strategies that would assist families in successfully undertaking the role.

Method: A qualitative study consisting of focus groups and individual interviews with caregivers of persons with stroke. Participants were asked about their needs in managing the care of their family member and the factors that facilitated and/or hindered the transition to the home and influenced them in maintaining their role.

Childhood chronic pain and health care professional interactions: shaping the chronic pain experiences of children.

Children with chronic pain meet numerous healthcare professionals during their search to understand their pain. Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study sought to understand the experiences of five children with chronic pain as they encountered healthcare professionals. In the majority of these interactions, children reported feeling misunderstood, disbelieved and abandoned.

One-on-one coaching to improve pain assessment and management practices of pediatric nurses.

Pain in children is infrequently assessed and managed by nurses. One-on-one coaching based on audit with feedback and the use of opinion leaders have been effective in changing professional health care practices. Coaching by an opinion leader for changing pediatric nurses' pain practices was tested in a clustered randomized trial in six Canadian pediatric hospitals.

Follow-up phone calls after pediatric ambulatory surgery for tonsillectomy: what can we learn from families?

The purpose of this quality improvement study was to describe families' responses regarding the adequacy of the preoperative preparation provided in the Preoperative Assessment Clinic, and the necessity of two follow-up phone calls after pediatric ambulatory surgery for tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy (T+/-A). Using a questionnaire developed for the study, 90 families were contacted by phone on the first postoperative day and, of them, 73 were contacted a second time between the ninth and twelfth postoperative days. Families' responses were reported in four categories: (1) concerns, (2) use of resources, (3) adequacy of the preoperative teaching, and (4) necessity of the two postoperative phone calls.