Assessment and Evaluation of Children's Behavior
When participants told about their experiences, they approached nursing in terms of assessing and evaluating children's behavior, as many different stressors interact, which in turn can lead to a certain behavior in a child. Nurses described that it was at times difficult to trace a child's behavior back to their parents' substance abuse, as the children may have shown difficulties in concentrating, were acting out, or were introverted due to reasons other than their parents' substance abuse. One nurse highlighted this complexity, stating