Parents' meetings in a pediatric unit: helping parents cope with their child's hospitalization.
The various ways of helping parents of hospitalized children to cope with this situation, highlighting a method utilized at Sinai Hospital of conducting biweekly meetings for parents is addressed. Ways in which the parents have utilized the meetings, issues that have been explored, and suggestions for handling parental concerns are the focus of the paper.
D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D006126:Group Processes; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D008396:Maryland; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations