"Think TB:" new focus for family assessment.
The growing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among childrearing families introduces new challenges to pediatric nurses. The following four clinical stories have been developed from the authors' experiences with Hispanic families from high prevalence regions in order to emphasize the characteristics and conditions that nurses need awareness of when caring for patients with possible TB. These stories highlight common themes in families from other high-risk groups as well that may surface in pediatric nurses' practice. Collaboration between pediatric and TB control nurses becomes essential for vigilant control of the spread of this reemerging old disease.
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D011859:Radiography; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing*