Chronic illnesses of a child can be stressful on the immediate and extended family.
After reading information on the hospitalized child in Maternal & Child Health Nursing Care of the Childbearing & Child rearing Family, initiate a discussion thread that describes the potential effects of hospitalization on the child and family.
Who do you think is most affected when a child is hospitalized…the parent or the child? Does the hospitalization affect the developmental age, or does developmental age affect the hospitalization? Provide rationale for your response. Identify possible nursing interventions to reduce the stress of hospitalization for the child and family. Include a reference from the literature to support the information provided.
•Pillitteri, A. (2014). Maternal & child health nursing: Care of the childbearing and childrearing family (7th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. ?Chapter 27: Nursing Care of the Child Born With a Physical or Developmental Challenge
?Chapter 36: Nursing Care of a Family With and Ill Child (Beginning of chapter until section on “Discharge Planning”)
?Chapter 40: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has a Respiratory Disorder (beginning of chapter until section on “Laboratory Tests”, section on “Choanal Atresia”, “Bronchopulmonary dysplasia” and sections on “Cystic Fibrosis”)
?Chapter 44: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has a Hematologic Disorder (sections on “Hemophilias”)
?Chapter 45: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has a Gastrointestinal Disorder (beginning of chapter until section on “Diarrhea”, sections on “Pyloric Stenosis”, sections on “Intussusception” through sections on “Necrotizing Enterocolitis”, Sections on “Hirschsprung Disease”)
?Chapter 46: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has a Renal or Urinary Tract Disorder (sections on “Structural Abnormalities of the Urinary Tract”)
?Chapter 51: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has a Musculoskeletal Disorder (sections on “The Muscular Dystrophies”)
