Pediatric nursing
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Review Case Reports
Preparing children and families for surgery: Mount Sinai's multidisciplinary perspective.
Upon learning that they must undergo surgery, children experience a range of emotions including fear, anger, guilt, and sadness. It has been demonstrated that children who are prepared for surgery and who have support throughout their hospitalization recover more quickly and have fewer emotional problems, such as separation anxiety and sleep disturbances, than those who are not prepared. ⋯ MMAMS is led by a multi-disciplinary team of health care providers including a pediatric surgery nurse practitioner, a registered nurse, a social worker, and a child life specialist. The program utilizes a culturally-sensitive, multimodality preparation model to prepare children and families for the surgical experience.
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Children presenting with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have become highly prevalent in primary care practice; however, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) diagnostic methods used to identify and diagnose this disorder are greatly understudied. ⋯ The questionnaires identified that the APRNs were following the American Academy of Pediatrics diagnostic guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in children more closely than other health care providers (pediatricians and family physicians). The results of this study also indicated that most APRNs were very comfortable to comfortable making an ADHD diagnosis (52.5%), and 64.4% reported the same level of comfort with treating ADHD. These findings indicate that the majority of APRNs surveyed who works with children are comfortable with diagnosing and treating ADHD.