A. Kotzer, M. Smyth, A. Gill, T. Rapstine, L. Thomas
{"title":"Grassroots advocacy in action: successes and opportunities for pediatric nurses.","authors":"A. Kotzer, M. Smyth, A. Gill, T. Rapstine, L. Thomas","doi":"10.1111/J.1744-6155.2001.TB00118.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1744-6155.2001.TB00118.X","url":null,"abstract":"The Advocate is a forum for exploring our roles as advocates for the children and families we serve.","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"6 1 1","pages":"39-41, 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1744-6155.2001.TB00118.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63391568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D J Biester, M Duggan, M Perkins, L K Powers, S Classick
{"title":"Quality care in an era of retrenchment.","authors":"D J Biester, M Duggan, M Perkins, L K Powers, S Classick","doi":"10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00230.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00230.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>SOURCE AND PURPOSE: Constraints in the healthcare delivery system are resulting in unprecedented challenges to quality nursing care. In response to concerns expressed by readers in a JSPN survey, we solicited input from prominent SPN members.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Quality care can be sustained through nurses' creativity, flexibility, leadership, and collaboration. The context for quality care is an organizational environment with attention to critical analysis, careful resource utilization, and improved outcomes.</p><p><strong>Practice implications: </strong>Nurses can not only maintain premium standards of quality care but, by assuming leadership, help shape the future of health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"141-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00230.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving access to health care for children.","authors":"J Sochalski, A M Villarruel","doi":"10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00232.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00232.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issues and purpose: </strong>The number of uninsured children has been growing at an alarming rate. The most vulnerable children are those in lower-income families who are falling through the cracks between evolving government-sponsored health insurance programs. Recent policy initiatives may not be adequate to extend coverage to more children.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Many low-income children actually are eligible for Medicaid but are not enrolled for a variety of reasons. The numbers of these children have risen due to welfare reform. Better outreach efforts are needed to ensure that new child health insurance programs and Medicaid expansions achieve their goals.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>A comprehensive assessment of insurance status and referral to community agencies should be an integral part of patient care for all healthcare providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"147-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00232.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges of recruiting minority populations for research.","authors":"Y M Sterling, J W Peterson","doi":"10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00236.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00236.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"172-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00236.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wind beneath the wings of health care.","authors":"R L Foster","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"139-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case management: facing future challenges.","authors":"K R Kuntz","doi":"10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00235.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00235.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"167-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00235.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agenda for children and youth: linking research, policy, and practice.","authors":"P Montoya","doi":"10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00234.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00234.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Issues and purpose: </strong>In this past century, we have made significant strides in our understanding of children's needs, but there is still much to learn as we enter the coming century. We must seek this new knowledge not only for the sake of knowing, but also for the sake of making change, ensuring that what we learn helps improve the future for our children and youth. These efforts require a strong link between policy, practice, and research.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Research partnerships can build our base of knowledge and help answer emerging policy and practice questions. Through research that focuses on the diversity and developmental phases of children, we can bring policy and practice into line with an increasingly refined understanding of children and their needs.</p><p><strong>Practice implications: </strong>Because nurses look at the holistic needs of individuals, it is critical that they are involved in setting the social service research agenda and seeking ways that policy and practice can both inform and be informed by this research.</p>","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 4","pages":"159-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1744-6155.1999.tb00234.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21489699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying and caring for the child with new onset type 1 diabetes.","authors":"N E Page, L Mackowiak, K Bratt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The parents of a child with new onset type 1 diabetes must master essential \"survival skills\" to return home safely with their child. It is the healthcare provider's responsibility to assure that the family has been taught necessary information to succeed at home and provide the family with access to nurses and physicians for insulin adjustment and emergencies upon discharge.</p>","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 3","pages":"128-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21337421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening to Hispanic mothers: guidelines for teaching.","authors":"A H Wilson, L Robledo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teaching Hispanic mothers in a culturally sensitive way to care for their children is a challenge to pediatric nurses. Pediatric nurses must be familiar with customs and the folk medicine practiced by Hispanic mothers. It is very important that the pediatric nurse listens to the voices of Hispanic mothers to determine their health practices, and those that may have been used in their children. Familiarity with folk medicine and health practices will facilitate an appropriate treatment plan and will help to determine whether the mothers' practices are dangerous or beneficial for the child. Pediatric nurses should assess for concurrent use of home remedies and conventional medications to determine if there are any known interactive effects. Finally, increasing the number of pediatric nurses who are fluent in Spanish will enable the voices of Hispanic mothers to be better heard, which in turn, will improve the health status of Hispanic children.</p>","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 3","pages":"125-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21337426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring for children in adult settings.","authors":"J M Fredrickson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses : JSPN","volume":"4 2","pages":"86-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21276639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}