Kathleen Sawin is professor and research chair for the Nursing of Children, a position jointly sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. At the time this research was conducted, she was an associate professor at the School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University and pediatric nurse practitioner in the Spina Bifida Program at Children's Hospital in Richmond, VA.
The Experience of Parenting an Adolescent with Spina Bifida
Article first published online: 10 JUL 2012
DOI: 10.1002/j.2048-7940.2003.tb02057.x
2003 Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
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Sawin, K. J., Bellin, M. H., Roux, G., Buran, C., Brei, T. J. and Fastenau, P. S. (2003), The Experience of Parenting an Adolescent with Spina Bifida. Rehabilitation Nursing, 28: 173–185. doi: 10.1002/j.2048-7940.2003.tb02057.x
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Kathleen Sawin is professor and research chair for the Nursing of Children, a position jointly sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. At the time this research was conducted, she was an associate professor at the School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University and pediatric nurse practitioner in the Spina Bifida Program at Children's Hospital in Richmond, VA.
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Melissa Hayden Bellin is a research assistant at the Uniformed Services University Department of Pediatrics and a doctoral student at the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Gayle Roux is an assistant professor at the Department of Maternal-Child Nursing at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Constance Buran is the manager of the Rehabilitation Medical Service Area and the clinical director of the Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida Programs at Clarian Health Partners and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, IN.
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Timothy Brei is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics and medical director of spina bifida and cerebral palsy programs, Section of Developmental Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.
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Philip Fastenau is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and adjunct assistant professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine.
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