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Managerial guidelines to support parents during the hospitalisation of their children in a private paediatric unit
Curationis | Vol 32, No 3 | a1223 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v32i3.1223
| © 2009 M. Verwey, K. Jooste
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 06 September 2009 | Published: 06 September 2009
Submitted: 06 September 2009 | Published: 06 September 2009
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M. Verwey, Department of Nursing, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaK. Jooste, Department of Nursing, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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The purpose of this article is to describe managerial guidelines to support parents with the hospitalisation of their child in a private paediatric unit. The hospitalisation of a child is regarded as a major stressor for both parents and child. The role of the family in participating in a child's illness is slowly being recognised (Kibel & Wagstajf, 2001:544), but the South African government per se has not yet issued any formal reports on parental participation in the hospitalisation process.
The study explored and described
The study explored and described
- the nursing care experiences of parents regarding the hospitalisation of their child in a paediatric unit;
- managerial guidelines to support parents with their lived experiences of their child’s hospitalisation in a paediatric unit.
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