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sacrifices for the well-being of the child like in the house looking after the child.
Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions are hereby offered. Most
of the mothers are in their adulthood, professionals but decided to stop working to attend
to the needs of their children with down syndrome. All of the mothers were affected in their
experiences physically, emotionally, spiritually and socio-economically. Caring for the child is a
part of their daily life experience3s. It is their own child so mothers had to accept the reality that
they have a child with disability. Proposed activities can be formulated to improve the parenting
experiences of mothers.
Based on the conclusions of the study, the following are the recommendations. Women
particularly mothers must be aware on the possible cause of having down syndrome to lessen
its incidence. A health worker particularly the nurses and midwives must include information
dissemination on down syndrome during their mothers’ community assembles. Mothers must
learn to cope with the challenges in parenting a child with down syndrome. The proposed
activities can be adapted for implementation to improve the care given to children with down
syndrome or other children with disabilities.

COMMITMENT OF CARE PROVIDERS TO TRAUMA PATIENTS: A CASE STUDY
MARVIE JIM RAFAEL DELA CRUZ

This study determined the extent of commitment of nurses in providing care to trauma
patients. Specifically, on the profile of the respondents namely: age, sex, civil status, highest
educational attainment, monthly family income, trauma case and length of stay in the hospital.
Further, it dealt on the extent of commitment of the care provider to trauma patients along
professional approach in patient’s safety and service quality. Likewise, the study focused on the
personal approach in attitude towards the patient, watchers and co-professionals.
The nature of the study was mainly exploratory, descriptive and qualitative involving
ten (10) cases. The descriptive-case study method was employed in this study. The researcher
elicited an interview schedule and an interview guided questionnaire as the main data gathering
tool. The frequency counts, percentages and the weighted average point were the statistical
tools used to treat the commonalities of data and come up with analysis and interpretation.
The following are the findings of the study: Majority of the respondent were middle
adults, mainly male who are singles, mostly college undergraduates high school graduates,
their family earns 5001 to 10000 monthly, most of them engaged to motor vehicular accidents
and stayed in the hospital for more than 5 days. The care providers were highly committed
in providing care to trauma patients along the quality care rendered and attitudes to patients
and watchers. While a moderately committed in patient’s safety and attitudes towards their co-
professional.
Based on the findings, the following conclusions were derived: The increasing number
of trauma patients is predominantly male, middle adults who are singles and reached college

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