Background: The rapid increase in the COVID-19 cases among children needs more attention from health care workers especially nurses. The rapid expansion of vaccines covering children is an important factor for combating this catastrophic pandemic. Aim: to investigate factors affecting Egyptian mothers' intentions to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Subjects and Method: Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design was utilized in this study. Setting: the study was carried out at pediatric outpatient clinics at Tanta University Hospital. Subjects: 1200 mothers who had children under the age of 18 were recruited to participate in this study. Tool of the study: A structured interview questionnaire that had three parts. The first part covered the socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers, the second part measured mothers' vaccination intention, factors affecting their intentions and the third part was assessing the mothers' trust in the recommended COVID-19 vaccination schedule Results: The results indicated that nearly half of participated mothers (49%) were extremely unlikely to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 and two thirds (64%)of them were hesitant to give the vaccine because they were afraid from the side effect of the vaccine on their children. Conclusion:The hesitant mothers in this study were concerned about the vaccine's side effects and this was the first factor the mothers consider when deciding to vaccinate their children. Recommendations: Pediatric nurses should understand factors prevent the mothers from vaccinating their children to be able to design and apply health education campaigns about the COVID-19 vaccine that target mothers.

Background: Acupressure is one of the important non-pharmacological modalities which is effective in enhancing bronchial asthma control. Aim: to evaluate the effect of acupressure on quality of life, dyspnea, sleep, and fatigue among children with bronchial asthma Design: A quasi experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting: the study was carried out at Pediatric Chest Inpatient Unit at Tanta Main University Hospital. Sample: sixty (60) children diagnosed with bronchial asthma aged from 5 to 12 years old. Tools of the study: Tool I: A structured interview schedule to collect patient's socio-demographic and clinical data. Tool II: Health related quality of life that was evaluated by using PROMIS Pediatric Asthma Impact Scale. Tool III: Physical health assessment that was measured by using three scales; Pediatric Dyspnea Scale, PROMIS Pediatric Sleep Disturbance Short Form 4a Scale and PROMIS Pediatric Fatigue Short Form 10a Scale. Results: The results indicated that the asthma had always impact on 60% of studied children's quality of life 25.0% of them suffered from very high trouble of breathing, asthma interfered with sleep in 61.7% of them and also, 43.3% of the children totally fatigued because of asthma before acupressure sessions while children's quality of life, dyspnea, sleep and fatigue were improved 2 and 4 weeks after acupressure sessions. Conclusion: there was a statistically significant improvement in relation to quality of life, dyspnea, sleep and fatigue among studied children at 2 and 4 weeks after acupressure sessions application than before its application. Recommendations: Acupressure should be applied into nursing care for children with bronchial asthma.