The document discusses the role of pediatric nurses. It states that pediatric nurses provide both caring and curing to children. Their role includes being a primary caregiver, health educator, nurse counselor, social worker, team coordinator, manager, child advocate, recreationist, consultant, and researcher. Pediatric nurses work at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of healthcare. They provide general nursing care, specialized skills, and responsibilities in preventive pediatrics. The role of pediatric nurses has evolved from a disease-centered model to a family and child-centered approach with a focus on health promotion.

1. By,
Mr. Abhijit
Bhoyar
ROLE OF
PEDIATRIC
NURSE

2. INTRODUCTION
Health of the children has
considered as the vital
importance to all societies
because children are the
basic resource for the
future of humankind.

3. • The role of the pediatric nurse is both caring and
curing.
• Caring is a continuous process in both wellness and
illness.
• It refers as helping, guiding and counseling
• The characteristics social behavior of the pediatric
nurse as role model for the child care can be
summarized as follows:

4. 1. PRIMARY
CAREGIVER
She/he acts as case finder
and compassionate skilled
caregiver as needed by
the today's society.
Pediatric nurse should provide
preventive, promotive, curative and
rehabilitatie care in all levels of
health services, as therapeutic
agent.

5. 2. HEALTH EDUCATOR
Change in health behavior and
attitude and to develop healthful by
the pediatric nurse as change agent,
teacher and health educator.

6. 3. NURSE –
COUNSELOR
Providing guidance to parents in
health hazards of children and help
them for own decision making in
different situation.

7. 4. SOCIAL WORKER –
•Pediatric nurse
can do case work
especially for
children and try
to alleviate social
problems related
to child health.

8. 5. TEAM COORDINATOR &
COLLABORATOR
Pediatric nurse should
work together and in
combination with other
health team members
towards better child
health care.

9. 6. MANAGER
The pediatric nurse is
the manager of
pediatric care units
in hospital, clinics &
community.

10. 7. CHILD CARE ADVOCATE
• As an advocate,
the pediatric
nurse can assist
the child to
obtain best care
possible from the
particular units.

11. 8. RECREATIONIST
This supportive role of pediatric nurse
is important for the child to adjust to
the crisis imposed by illness or
hospitalization

12. CONSULTANT –
• The pediatric nurse
can act as consultant
to guide the parents
and family members
for maintenance and
promotion of health
and prevention of
childhood illness.

13. 11. RESEARCHER
• Pediatric nurse
should participate or
perform research
projects related to
child health.

14. ROLE OF PEDIATRIC NURSE IN
COMMUNITY LEVEL
• I. In Primary Level
• II. In Secondary Level
• III. In Tertiary Level

16. Nursing task and skill
General nursing care:-
• Monitoring of vital signs.
• Administration of fluid and electrolytes
and drugs.
• Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Nursing procedures.
• Resuscitations skills.

17. • Specialized nursing and monitoring skills.
• Vaccination
• Prevention of nasocomial infection
• Universal precaution
• Hospital environment for a sick child.
• Advanced changes in medical and nursing care
• Expansion in independent role of the pediatric nurse
• Pediatric clinic nurse specialist
• Pediatric nurse master clinicians

18. Nursing responsibilities in preventive
pediatrics:-
• Pediatric nurse has a unique opportunity
to work with parents and children in the
family and community to provide good
environment and adequate facilities to
promote health and prevent childhood
illness to attain their fullest potentials.

19. • Preventive care is better render by nurses by
health assessment, health education, health
counseling, anticipatory guidance, direct
nursing care and referral.
• Nursing responsibilities in preventive care of
children begins with promotion of care of girl
child and continuous in prenatal, neonatal and
childhood period till adolescence

20. cont…
• Creating awareness about the care of girl child.
• Appropriate care of antenatal mothers.
• Adequate intranatal care.
• Promoting breastfeeding practices
• Preventing vaccine
• Nutrition education about weaning

21. cont…
• Health education and counseling on personal hygiene.
• Promoting community hygiene by use of latrines.
• Prompt and adequate care of sick and injured child.
• Promoting self-care abilities of children and parents.
• Health supervision at regular interval

22. cont…
• Participating in the implementation of
health programs.
• Promoting beneficial traditional child.
• Involving family and improving
community participation.
• Participating and contributing in the
planning of child health programs.

23. Old and new concept of pediatric nurse
care in hospital and community.
OLD CONCEPTS NEW CONCEPT
Disease [centered
care]
Child centered care
Discourage the Take care of female
families on neglect of child with
the female child. immunization of
tetanus.

24. Care of the women
after becoming
pregnant.
Health education on
planned parent–hoods
and doing the maternal
health.
Special care during the
last trimester and the
anomalies and hereditary
disorders.
Early identification and
family counseling Based
postnatal Period to the on biochemical screening
child born with congenital and chromosomal studies
it helps to prevent
congenital anomalies and
hereditary disorders in
children.

25. Caring of child after the
birth only.
Caring the health of the
child from the day of
conception.
Care of the sick children
in the hospital.
Participate in the
prevention of illness and
health promotion
activities.
Care the physical
condition of the child in
hospital only.
Comprehensive cares of
child in his home
community health centers.

26. Not allowed the
parents to be with
the child in the
hospital and
reducing the
visiting hours ward
Ensuring that the
children must have
stay with them and
participate in the
care, flexible visiting
hours in pediatric.
One of illness
oriented
One of health
oriented.
Only cleanliness and
treatment oriented.
Warmth and love
oriented.

27. Curative and
rehabilitative care
to the children in
hospital only.
Health promotion activities by
ensuring environmental
stimulation and intelligent many
population of the environment,
adequate play activities services
related to the fertility, sex,
education and counseling’s.
Adopt the indifferent
attitude to child
neglect and abuse by
family and society.
Safe guarding and protect the
children rights by health
providing, cultural practice and
laws encouraging.

28. Family Center Care
Approach
• Family centered care is philosophy of care that
acknowledges the importance of the family
unit as the fundamental focus of all health care
interventions.
• Family and child centered care is family
oriented, yet individualized and co-ordinate,
recognizing the worth of each person as a
member of the family constellation.

29. Parent Education:
• One of the major roles of the nurse is teaching
both the child (according to his age) and his
family members especially his parent.
• The nurse has many opportunities in providing
health education to parents’ daily either for
child’s parent alone or in-group (group
teaching of parents and children).

30. Her education may be
specific to information on:
• Growth and development needs.
• Child’s health promotion and maintenance as
nutritional need and hygienic care.
• Preventive
prevention,
examination.
aspects, such as, accident
immunization, periodic

31. • Child’s illness (nature of illness and care
needs).
child’s medication; follow
• Plan for child’s discharge, such as,
up,
nutrition…etc.

32. CONCLUSION

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