Application of nursing presence to family-centered care: Supporting nursing practice in pediatric oncology.

Purpose: In pediatric care settings, family-centered care (FCC) is an integral way to ensure family involvement in their child's care and has been known to improve health outcomes and families' psychosocial well-being. Similarly, nursing presence is deemed beneficial in the formation of authentic nurse-patient relationships and is known to facilitate healing and improve satisfaction for the patient and their family. The objective of this article is to explore how nursing presence supports FCC by closely examining the four concepts of FCC as described by Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care: dignity and respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration.

Exploring nursing presence as experienced by parents in pediatric oncology.

Background: Nursing presence has been viewed as a valuable way to create therapeutic relationships and has been linked to better health outcomes for patients and families. However, whether nursing presence can be described and how parents in pediatric oncology experience this phenomenon remains unanswered. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how parents of children with cancer describe and experience nursing presence.

Nursing Presence in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review.

Nursing presence creates meaningful and trusting relationships that facilitate healing for the patient and enhances the nurse's clinical experience. Although nursing presence has been linked to better health outcomes especially in chronic illnesses and end-of-life, little is known about its contribution in pediatric oncology. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore how nursing presence is understood and expressed in pediatric oncology.

Beyond "Watching the Sweets": An interpretive description of adolescent's understandings and insights into preventing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore adolescents' experiences and knowledge of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and identify appropriate T2D education and prevention interventions for this population.

Design And Methods: This interpretive description study was conducted at two urban high schools in midwestern Canada. Participants had been previously screened and considered at high risk for T2D, prediabetes, or as having T2D.

Research in pediatric oncology: Engaging parents to strengthen research processes, outcomes and knowledge translation.

Childhood cancer is the most common disease-related cause of death in Canadian children aged 0-14 years, with more than 1,000 new diagnoses every year (Canadian Cancer Statistics Advisory Committee, 2019). Treatment for childhood cancers requires complex, intensive, and lengthy regimens, often lasting years. Each new diagnosis marks tremendous upheaval in the lives of the child and their family, and an opportunity for nurses in pediatric oncology to make a difference.

School-based interventions for preventing substance use in indigenous children ages 7-13: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Throughout the world, indigenous peoples share traumatic colonial experiences that have caused gross inequalities for them and continue to impact every aspect of their lives. The effect of intergenerational trauma and other health disparities have been remarkable for Indigenous children and adolescents, who are at a greater risk of adverse mental health and addiction outcomes compared with non-indigenous people of the same age. Most indigenous children are exposed to addictive substances at an early age, which often leads to early initiation of substance use and is associated with subsequent physical and mental health issues, poor social and relational functioning, and occupational and legal problems.

T.R.U.S.T. Model for Inclusive Spiritual Care: Critique of Middle-Range Theory.

Spiritual care has been recognized as an integral component to holistic health care promotion. Several middle-range theories in the recent years have been developed in an attempt to promote spiritual care in nursing practice and to guide research in spiritual nursing. However, there is still reluctance from nurses in addressing spiritual care needs for their patients.