title: Helping a 10-year-old Haitian girl with vaginitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate how nurses who work with Haitian children and families can use NANDA-I (diagnosis), the Nursing Outcomes Classification, and the Nursing Interventions Classification to assist a 10-year-old child with symptoms of vaginitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The case study derives from the author's experience and literature sources.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This case study demonstrates a nurse's clinical decision making while providing care to a 10-year-old girl with symptoms of vaginitis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Increased knowledge and awareness about appropriate health behaviors can increase patients' power and enable them to freely act and adopt health behaviors to improve health outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Placing patients at the center of the nursing process and partnering with patients to plan and develop interventions enable them to take actions and improve health outcomes.
authors.affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Anne Marie B
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Leveille-Tulce
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D014627:Vaginitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Nursing diagnosis; nursing intervention; nursing outcome; vaginitis