Nursing Interventions for Infants and Children

Part 1 Family development interventions: facilitating attachment and trust of a new family member; anticipatory guidance for the developing child; fostering family integrity during times of crisis and change; promoting siblings relationships during times of crisis and change; caring for a child with a health problem at home; promoting childhood physical and emotional safety. Part 2 The child experiencing an altered health status: maintenance of self-concept and promotion of coping; psychosocial interventions; preparation for hospitalization, procedures, or surgery; maintenance of peer relations; promotion of self care; provisions for privacy; advocacy; managing disruptive/inappropriate behaviour; providing support; counseling and listening; support groups; communicating with children of diverse cultures; communication through drawing; communication through touch; communication through play; minimizing the effects of loss; body image alteration; body function alteration; life goal alteration; biophysiological interventions; vestibular stimulation; manipulation of environmental stimuli; controlling pain (biophysiological approaches); controlling pain (cognitive approaches); maximizing effects of intracranial pressure; promotion of sleep and rest; bowel and bladder maintenance in the handicapped child. Conclusion - statement of present-future research implications.