Evidence Based Nursing Practice for Pediatric Patients and Involvement of Parents

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING PRACTICE
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Introduction
World Health Organisation mentions family as the milieu that provides children with
values, views, shapes the attitude of members and behavior to life and people around and
nurtures them which ultimately reflects in their health behavior (Coyne, 2015). Parents play an
important role in developing healthcare habits and maintaining the healthy and hygienic lifestyle
of every child and hence, their contribution is higher in any childhood development associated to
social, emotional and cognitive development (Alexander, Austin & Prasanth, 2018). Therefore,
in the healthcare process of children, parents could play an effective role as it becomes their duty
to communicate with the healthcare professionals so that they can take effective steps about the
interventions, their needs and also provides consent so that smooth and effective care process
could be delivered to the patient (King et al., 2015).
To understand and validate the role of parents in the care process of their children, their
role in the pediatric care process would be assessed by looking for evidences from recent
healthcare practices. In this aspect, a systematic review will be conducted and recent literature
articles related to the topic will be searched in the databases such as Pub Med and Cochrane and
Medline. Further, using inclusion and exclusion criteria, 2 articles will be collected. Further,
using the six steps of evidence based practice, the collected evidences and their application in the
healthcare process for children and parental input would be discussed and their outcome will be
addressed.
PICOT Question
Population Intervention Comparative Outcome Timeline
Pediatric Applying family Parents who do Improved patient Within 6 months

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patients from 0-
17 years
centered care by
involving
parents into the
decision making
of implementing
vaccine against
influenza
not involve in
the care process
or vaccination
process
condition for
children and
minimize their
risk of
developing
pneumonia
The question: Does involvement of parents in the decision making process for
vaccination against influenzaamong pediatric children help to minimize the risk of pneumonia
within 6 months, compared to children, whose parents do not take part in the decision making
process?
Systematic review
Systematic review is the research process, using which previous and recent research
articles are searched over several databases within which using several inclusion and exclusion
criteria several research and their findings are selected (Shamseer et al., 2015). These research
articles then are analyzed so that their application in the care process could be done and the
outcome assessed could be achieved in the care process (Moher et al., 2015).
In this evidence based practice, databases such as Pub Med and Cochrane were used to
search recent literature articles that contain evidences associated to the PICOT question of this
paper. The databases were searched with several key terms such as “family centered care
among pediatric patients”, “pediatric patients and their parents as a part of care process”,
“involving parents in the care process of children”, “adverse effects of not including parents
in the care process of children”. Further, these key terms were shuffled among each other and
connected using Boolean operators “And/Or” so that possible research articles could be

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collected. The total number of research articles obtained from Pub Med and Cochrane after
conducting the search was 845 and 134 respectively within which only 2 accurate and
appropriate research articles were included. The prisma chart of search strategy is as follows: