Nursing Role in Infants and Young Children with RSV

Question

Paper Description & Rubric This paper aims to provide nurses information about a pediatric condition that may be seen frequently in pediatric nursing practice and allows nurses an opportunity to understand the important aspects of providing care for a child suffering from the condition. Your paper should address the following questions:

• Overview: What the disease or illness is? (Laymen’s terms – what is the definition). What is the purpose of the paper?

 • Infection Prevention and Control: Are there any preventative measures to stop the spread if it, is it contagious? What type of precautions would the patient require, if any?

• Assessment: How is it assessed by nursing staff? What are the key nursing assessments? Are there changes to your assessment that would be required depending on the growth and developmental stage of the client?

• Nursing Dx: What is 1 priority nursing diagnosis would you make for this patient and/or their family? • Interventions: What are some of the nursing interventions that can be done to help support healing, wellness or the symptoms of the disease/illness. Are there psychosocial or cultural related interventions needing consideration?

• Evaluation: How will the nurse know the child is getting better and/or approximately how long does the disease or illness usually last. Is this a curable disease/illness or do you need to allow time for your immune system to deal with it? What does this mean – to allow your immune system to deal with it? Can you contract this disease or illness again? Are there community supports available for this condition? • Summary/Conclusion Note: All of your points need to be supported by evidence. This can come from professional resources such as -RNAO, CNA, Pediatrics Society of Canada, etc., scholarly journals, textbooks. They must not be older than 10 years. Preference should always be given to literature within the last 5 years. You must have at least 3-4 references.