Nurses’s Roles in Caring for Child Patients with COVID-19 Undergoing Home Isolation
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Child patients with COVID-19, Isolation, Nurses’s rolesAbstract
Pediatric cases of COVID-19 are commonly found among healthy children with no underlying diseases aged between 3-11 years. Most of them have mild symptoms and can recover quickly. Therefore, home isolation is a primary option for pediatric care because it helps reduce the anxiety of children in early childhood who have to separate from their parents or caregivers, as well as reducing children’s stress, fear and feelings of insecurity about the environment inside the hospital wards. It is considered a challenge for caregivers of child patients with COVID-19, as they must have proper knowledge and skills to provide care for home isolation patients. Nurses play an important role in implementing the nursing process in holistic solutions to the health problems of each child patient so that caregivers can deal with COVID-19 cases safely, and applying the D-METHOD as a continuity of care guideline to prevent the disease recurrence.
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