Facilitated tucking: a nonpharmacologic comfort measure for pain in preterm neonates.

Objective: To identify the effectiveness of "facilitated tucking," a nonpharmacologic nursing intervention, as a comfort measure in modulating preterm neonates' physiologic and behavioral responses to minor pain.

Design: Prospective, repeated measure, random sequencing, and experimental.

Setting: Level III neonatal intensive-care unit of a tertiary care university pediatric hospital.

A theory of transformed parenting: parenting a child with developmental delay/mental retardation.

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine the parenting process when a child has developmental delay including mental retardation (DD/MR). The sample consisted of parents (29 mothers, 13 fathers) of 31 children with DD/MR. A semistructured interview guide was used to collect data during 1- to 1.

Culture sensitivity in assessing urban Native American parenting.

Assessing urban Native American (NA) parenting remains a challenge for public health nurses. This study explored the effectiveness of using the NCATS and HOME instruments with urban NA mothers and their children. Scores for 63 sets of mothers and their children age 3 months to 3 years on the home observation for measurement of the environment (HOME) and nursing child assessment teaching scale (NCATS) instruments were compared with norms for those instruments.