Authors : Kiyung, Victor MOMAH; Pr Sara Horton-Deutsch; Dr Sah Tatsing Félix Désiré

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 12 - December

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10453196

Abstract : Nurses have the as duty to care for children especially those who are to be operated. Children living with tetralogy of Fallot, TOF, fall within this group of people as the key approach to it management is geared towards surgical correction. Therefore, postoperatively, the children need special care and one of them is just by being there so as to carry out the required therapeutic observations like hemodynamic monitoring, arterial blood gases evaluations, medication controls, and others as detected by the heart monitor or ventilator. The study was aimed at identifying the specific caring behaviors shown by the nurses towards children with a surgically corrected tetralogy of Fallot from their virtue of being fully present at the bedside of the child. This was a quantitative descriptive study in which data was collected from 303 nurses using a convenient sampling technique through questionnaires. Data was analyzed using statistical package for social science, SPSS, version, 25. This results showed that by being with the child who has undergone TOF repair, nurses demonstrated caring behaviors that gratified biophysical, safety and security, and psychosocial health problems of the children.

Keywords : Being, Caring behaviors, Tetralogy of Fallot.