Effective Familial Coping with a Chronically or Terminally Ill Child

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dc.contributor.advisorPlank, Linda
dc.contributor.authorKnight, Morgan
dc.contributor.departmentNursing.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-02T18:33:42Z
dc.date.available2014-06-02T18:33:42Z
dc.date.copyright2014
dc.date.issued2014-06-02
dc.description.abstractDue to a personal experience with chronic illness as a child and a passion for these children and their families, this thesis deals with effective and ineffective coping mechanisms of parents and siblings of a child with a chronic or terminal illness. A review of the literature is proposed and themes are identified for these families such as uncertainty about the child's illness and its prognosis and increased psychological and financial stressors on the family throughout the child's illness. Many of the resources utilized for the research on this topic discussed the increased stress on the entire family during a child's illness, promoting the use of the family systems approach when applying the nursing process. When using the nursing process with this approach, the nurse, along with the family, assesses the health history and dynamics of the family, diagnoses the important issues at hand, plans ways to alleviate these issues, implements appropriate interventions, and evaluates whether the interventions worked to improve the family's issues noted in the nursing diagnosis. Finally, nursing implications regarding effective and ineffective methods of coping for mothers, fathers, and siblings are outlined. This thesis provides nurses with a knowledge base for implementing a family nursing technique and promoting positive coping mechanisms for the families of children with chronic or terminal illnesses.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/8987
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectPaternal coping.en_US
dc.subjectMaternal coping.en_US
dc.subjectEffective familial coping.en_US
dc.subjectSibling coping.en_US
dc.subjectChronically ill child.en_US
dc.subjectTerminally ill child.en_US
dc.subjectFamily health systems approach.en_US
dc.titleEffective Familial Coping with a Chronically or Terminally Ill Childen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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