SPECIAL EDUCATORS' INTERVENTIONS INSTITUTED AFTER PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION BY PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1983
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Education, Special.
Description: Teachers of 48 trainable mentally retarded, severely mentally retarded, and physically handicapped children who had participated in the Supplemental Security Income Disabled Children's Program were surveyed. They reported all interventions instituted after pediatric nurse practitioners presented their findings as recorded on the problem oriented medical record in an interdisciplinary team conference.

Findings of this ex-post facto descriptive study included: (a) the health problems identified in 20% of the populations, (b) the frequencies of problems effecting each body system as classified by the International Classification of Diseases, (c) the frequency of specific interventions, (d) the frequency of categories of interventions, and (e) the frequency of categories of interventions by problems as classified by body system.

Among the most prevalent problems found were mental retardation, communication disorders, vision, and dental problems. The ICD categories most often affected were mental disorders and disorders of the nervous system and sense organs.

Over one-half of all responses involved the addition or change of various educational interventions. Those reported most often included: Conferring with other school personnel; changing classroom routine or schedule; and introducing new equipment. The general categories of interventions most often reported involved educational, medical or community resources and instruction. Problems involving mental disorders and disorders of the nervous system stimulated the greatest number of interventions.

It was concluded that participation of a pediatric nurse practitioner utilizing the SSI-Disabled Children's Program did have impact on educational programming. The use of the problem-oriented medical record through the interdisciplinary team process contributed to this finding.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-08, Section: A, page: 2436.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1983.

School code: 0178.