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Designed for nurses and student nurses who work with this group, this book covers interventions for infants and children as clients, as well as the family as a client. Each chapter examines the theoretical and research literature support for the invention and links to appropriate nursing diagnoses and outcomes. A case study is presented to illustrate how each intervention is used in nursing practice. Implications for further research are presented with the goal of advancing nursing science by stimulating further study of nursing interventions.
Normalization Promotion
Normalization Promotion
Childhood chronic conditions present families and individual family members with multiple challenges. Typically, parents are expected to master new, often sophisticated, medical information and complex treatment regimens. Moreover, they are expected to do so in such a way that managing the condition is incorporated into the usual flow of everyday life rather than becoming a dominant focus of either the family's or the child's life. Corbin and Strauss (1988) discussed how life with a chronic condition entails three types of interrelated work: illness, everyday, and biographical. Whereas illness work focuses on the treatment regimen and interactions with health care professionals, everyday work entails efforts to continue usual activities. Biographical work focuses on constructing a meaningful life for one's ...
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