Nurses' Recognition of the Current Condition of Parents' Presence While Collecting Blood and Giving Injections to Infants.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the current condition of the parents' presence, during blood and injections to infants, and the nurses' recognition of the situation, as well as the tension-easing approaches in the child nursing care to the parents' presence. The study was held from August 3 to September 7, 2005 using a questionnaire made by myself. 226 nurses who are working for pediatrics departments of 9 facilities in A prefecture were surveyed. The result shows that the ratio of nurses thinking parents' presence is necessary when collecting blood and giving injections was about 30 percent. The number of wards giving a choice to parents accounts for about 70 percent, which is on the increase. The nurses felt pressure and tension in parents' presence regardless of their working experience compared with the case without the parents being present (p <0.001). The most often used approach to ease the tension of nurses while in the parents' presence was to trouble shoot among nurses, but the most useful one was to discuss the problem with doctors.