الفهرس 
An Overview about Pediatric Critical Care
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Abstract
The clinical experience is frequently perceived as a stressor in
clinical education by nursing students. This study is a quasiexperimental
aimed to assess the stressors related to students’ training
in pediatric critical care settings (PCCSs), study the factors affecting
students’ training in PCCSs, design, implement and evaluate nursing
intervention based on needs assessment of the students. This study was
conducted at both Pediatric Nursing Departments/Faculty of
Nursing/Ain Shams and El-Fayoum Universities. The study involved
120 students in the 3rd academic year/ Pediatric Nursing Department
regardless their age, residence and socioeconomic standards. Tools of
the data collection were used pre and post nursing intervention namely
pre designed questionnaire (to assess the students’ characteristics, data
about factors that affect the students’ training in PCCSs as well, the
stressors perceived by the students in their training, students’
knowledge related to their training in PCCSs), Hamilton Rating Scale
(to assess the students’ anxiety level). The main results of the study
showed that, there was a statistical significant difference between the
students’ knowledge regarding to PCCSs, stress and their total stress
level pre and post nursing intervention among the study group
compared with the control group. The study concluded that the
application of nursing intervention reduce the students’ stressors related
to their training in pediatric critical care settings. The study
recommended orientation program, identifying students’ needs and
facilitates their learning in the pediatric critical care settings and
developing effective nursing interventions to reduce their stress.