Hospitalization Of Hospitalization In Children

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COMPLEXITY OF CARE IN CHILDREN’S NURSING AMONG ENGLAND PATIENTS
BACKGROUND IN INFORMATION
Baby J was born at 41 weeks gestation in England Teaching and referral hospital. She appeared cyanotic few minutes after birth which instigated a series of medical examination. Cyanotic spells were observed when crying while on cardiac catheterization the baby was found to have tetralogy of fallot (TOF), pulmonary atresia, and ventricular septal defects with aorta lying over the septal defects. Baby J underwent surgery to repair the tetralogy of fallot. Two weeks after she develops chronic heart failure with laboratory investigations revealing metabolic acidosis and hyperglycemia. She was put on various medications and discharged home with subsequent follow up sessions in the hospital. Two years after, she develops diabetes mellitus, with intermittent seizures that disrupt her social relationship with the other children in the family as well as parents. She became briefly hospitalized and later discharged after symptoms subsided.
Hospitalization of baby J resulted to her emotional upset. Seminal work by (Prugh et al 1953) reveals how children react negatively to the stress of hospitalization with separation anxiety, loss of control and fears .It is evident that hospitalization of children between ages of six months to four years are at greater risk of separation anxiety. Thou at this age of two years theirs increasing cognitive abilities and concepts of time help, classical work by Robertson (1958), who expanded on the work of John Bowlby, described that children progress by protesting in which they searched for the unseen parent, despair and afterwards deny the parent that was evident by baby J.
Baby j will however suffer l...

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...ers take it for granted (Howby et al 2006), it can create much more ruin and harm than aid.
Whereas families are on a continuum of coping and need different types of services and intervention along it, all family members should always advocate for parent education development enhancing education, family centered programs for additional support, facing minor challenges, family counseling so as not to be stressed of the child care requirement of healthcare(David and Lucid 1998)
Educational intervention programs aimed at training this child due to health related issues should be planned in advance figuring out possible future outcome to be faced if not dealt with at the current time. Perception which is strongly controlled by behavioral; model is earned by training under a constantly monitored environment with constant incoming and outflowing stimuli (Bandura, 1986)

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