Background: A sick child will affect family directly. The life of the family will extremely change compared to their life before the illness.

Hospitalized children can have various fantasies about hospital, health staff, and related tools and equipment. They need to develop new coping strategies for compliance with hospitalization.This study aimed to investigate the perception of nurses by children with acute and chronic illness through their drawings. The study was carried out using a descriptive research model. "Nurses through the eyes of sick children data collection form" was used in data collection procedure. The instruction "draw a picture of a nurse, please" was used to get the children to draw a picture. The majority of the children portrayed nurses as a smiling face. The children with chronic diseases featured nurses more in their drawings and they mentioned more nurse duties. The most important sign of the progression of nursing is that the mentioning of the modern roles of nursing by the children in their drawings and expressions. As children are influenced by their emotions, thoughts, observations, and experiences while drawing pictures, nurses can determine their thoughts about the disease, hospitals, physicians, and nurses by having sick children draw pictures.

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This study was designed to determine the psychometric properties of the scale developed to evaluate the pediatric pain management knowledge (PPMK) and the skills of nursing students. Materials and Methods: This is a methodological study conducted to develop the PPMK scale for nursing students. A 29-item scale was administered to a total of 343 nursing students who were in their 3rd year taking the pediatric nursing course or in their 4th year carrying out their internship training at a state university. The scale items were selected through item-total score correlation analysis, and the sensitivity and specificity of the scale were evaluated using receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results: The students' mean age was 21.92±1.150 years and 76.2% were female. As a result of explanatory factor analysis, the scale consisting of six subscales was found to explain 50.30% of the total variance. The fit indexes of confirmatory factor analysis were calculated to be root mean square error of approximation 0.063, goodness of fit index 0.85, comparative fit index 0.93, incremental fit index 0.93, relative fit index 0.86, normed fit index 0.88, and Tucker-Lewis index 0.92. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of the entire scale was determined to be 0.864. The correlations of the scale items with the scale total score ranged between 0.285 and 0.625. Conclusion: In this study, it was determined that the PPMK scale was a valid and reliable tool for nursing students. It is recommended that after the students' knowledge level is determined using the current measurement tool for PPMK, the nursing curriculum should be revised and enriched, and further studies should be conducted on this topic.