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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Use of Emoji in Pain Level Assessment in Pediatric Dental Patients

Dhillon, Manpreet K 01 January 2019 (has links)
USE OF EMOJI IN PAIN LEVEL ASSESSMENT IN PEDIATRIC DENTAL PATIENTS Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of a pain scale with Emoji images in comparison to the commonly used Wong-Baker FACES® pain scale. Methods: Healthy, English-speaking patients aged 4-17 presenting to the VCU Pediatric Dental clinic and the operating room and presenting to the MCV Pediatric Emergency Room were asked to rate their pain using the Wong-Baker FACES® and Emoji scales. These patients were then asked to select which pain scale they preferred. Results: A total of 151 children were enrolled in the study. The proposed Emoji scale was preferred by 86% of enrolled children (n=151). Children rated their pain the same on the two scales 78% of the time indicating a weak overall agreement between the two scales as defined by Cohen’s Kappa (k=0.5863, 95% CI: 0.47-0.70). In the instances of disagreement, 82% were within one image on the pain scale. There was a roughly even split between which scale corresponded to the higher pain level (56% Wong-Baker was higher and 44% Emoji was rated higher). Conclusions: A majority of the patients surveyed presented with no pain. The Emoji scale showed moderate agreement with the Wong-Baker FACES scale. A majority of the patients preferred the Emoji scale demonstrating the strong communicative utility of Emoji.
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Building trust to work with: a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work

Hall, Julianne Unknown Date (has links)
Grounded theory methodology has guided the grounded theory methods used to explore the acute care paediatric nurses' perspective of what they do when a child has had a severe accident. The research was initiated from the experience of nursing children in the context of a rehabilitation centre and wondering how acute care nurses promoted a child's recovery after a severe unintentional injury.Many avenues were used to search international and New Zealand literature but the scarcity of literature related to what acute care paediatric nurses do was evident. Therefore this research has the potential of informing the speciality practice of acute care pediatric nursing.Nursing children in the acute care ward after a severe accident is complex. It encompasses nursing the family when they are experiencing a crisis. It is critical that the acute care nurse monitors and ensures the child's physiological needs are met, and the nurse "works with" the child to maintain and advance medical stability. Nursing interactions are an important part of "working with", communication is the essence of nursing. This research has focussed on the nurses' social processes whilst caring for the physical needs of the child and interacting with the family and multidisciplinary team when appropriate.An effective working-relationship with a nurse and family is founded on trust. Trust is an accepted part of our day-to-day lives and how to develop a trusting working-relationship with the child and family has not been explored prior to this research. Grounded theory methods supported the process of exploring the social processes of "building trust" whilst "working with" families in a vulnerable position. Nurses rely on rapport to be invited into a family's space to "work with" and support the re-establishment of the parenting role. The "stepping in and out" of an effective working-relationship with a family is reliant on trust. Nurses build trust by spending time to "be with", using chat to get to know each other, involving and supporting the family to parent a "different" child and reassuring and giving realistic hope to help the child and parents cope with their changed future.A substantive theory of the concept of "building trust to work with" has been developed using grounded theory methods. The theory has been conceptualized using the perspective of seven registered nurses working in paediatric acute care wards that admit children who have had a severe traumatic accident.
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Building trust to work with: a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work

Hall, Julianne Unknown Date (has links)
Grounded theory methodology has guided the grounded theory methods used to explore the acute care paediatric nurses' perspective of what they do when a child has had a severe accident. The research was initiated from the experience of nursing children in the context of a rehabilitation centre and wondering how acute care nurses promoted a child's recovery after a severe unintentional injury.Many avenues were used to search international and New Zealand literature but the scarcity of literature related to what acute care paediatric nurses do was evident. Therefore this research has the potential of informing the speciality practice of acute care pediatric nursing.Nursing children in the acute care ward after a severe accident is complex. It encompasses nursing the family when they are experiencing a crisis. It is critical that the acute care nurse monitors and ensures the child's physiological needs are met, and the nurse "works with" the child to maintain and advance medical stability. Nursing interactions are an important part of "working with", communication is the essence of nursing. This research has focussed on the nurses' social processes whilst caring for the physical needs of the child and interacting with the family and multidisciplinary team when appropriate.An effective working-relationship with a nurse and family is founded on trust. Trust is an accepted part of our day-to-day lives and how to develop a trusting working-relationship with the child and family has not been explored prior to this research. Grounded theory methods supported the process of exploring the social processes of "building trust" whilst "working with" families in a vulnerable position. Nurses rely on rapport to be invited into a family's space to "work with" and support the re-establishment of the parenting role. The "stepping in and out" of an effective working-relationship with a family is reliant on trust. Nurses build trust by spending time to "be with", using chat to get to know each other, involving and supporting the family to parent a "different" child and reassuring and giving realistic hope to help the child and parents cope with their changed future.A substantive theory of the concept of "building trust to work with" has been developed using grounded theory methods. The theory has been conceptualized using the perspective of seven registered nurses working in paediatric acute care wards that admit children who have had a severe traumatic accident.
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Building trust to work with a grounded theory study of paediatric acute care nurses work : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Health Science (Nursing), 2004.

Hall, Julianne. January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (MHSc--Health Science) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2004. / Also held in print (156 leaves, ill., 30 cm.) in North Shore Theses Collection. (T 618.920028 HAL)
115

An assessment of pediatric nurse practitioners' use of clinical criteria for evaluating the hydration status of children a research report submitted in partial fulfillment ... /

Hanson, Marilyn E. January 1989 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989.
116

Air pollution as a risk factor for respiratory morbidity in Hong Kong : an epidemiological and economic assessment /

Liu, Lip-yau, Joseph. January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-201).
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An assessment of pediatric nurse practitioners' use of clinical criteria for evaluating the hydration status of children a research report submitted in partial fulfillment ... /

Hanson, Marilyn E. January 1989 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989.
118

An assessment of pediatric nurse practitioners' use of clinical criteria for evaluating the hydration status of children a research report submitted in partial fulfillment ... /

Hanson, Marilyn E. January 1989 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989.
119

Paediatric regional anaesthetic procedures clinical anatomy competence, pitfalls and complications /

Van Schoor, Albert-Neels. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (MSc.(Anatomy)--Faculty of Health Sciences)-University of Pretoria, 2004. / Summary in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references.
120

Differences in service delivery and patient outcome between rural and urban areas : the case of traumatic brain injury at a level I pediatric trauma center in North Texas /

Robertson, Brian David, January 2009 (has links)
Thesis. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-125)

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