Nursing is a practice-based profession where clinical education becomes an essential part of the nursing curriculum. Students require effective clinical placements/experiences to allow the application of theory to practice and to be a competent and independent practitioner. Through nursing education, nursing students will be able to obtain necessary knowledge and skills to assist public health. The existing clinical education does not meet the clinical skills competence of the students because of the large gap between theoretical and clinical nursing education. Pediatric nursing is a very special vocation, because it provides the opportunity to play a key role in a child's life. Nurses who specialize in pediatrics devote their knowledge and skills to caring for children from infancy through the 18 years and their families. Pediatric nurses can perform physical examinations, measure vital statistics, take blood and urine samples and order diagnostic tests and visit schools to perform physical exams, immunize children, and provide routine developmental health screenings. This clinical daily diary acts as a guide for the students and teachers about implementation of learned objectives in clinical setting and will definitely provide adequate knowledge, attitude and skills required to care children.

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A pediatric nursing student should be talented to understand the problems of the children and be ready to help them whenever healthcare is needed. They should have special preparation and training to contribute to the effective healthcare of the children.

I have been in the nursing profession for the past 16 years. I felt that one pediatric nursing clinical daily diary record is needed, which is prepared according to the new syllabus of the Indian Nursing Council (INC). The main concept of this diary is to makes the students comfortable in maintaining their clinical activities, and it should also have the accountability of the clinical activities. I have decided to take up this project with the spirit of my hard-work schedule to help the pediatric nursing students.

This clinical daily diary covers the MSc, BSc, PB BSc and GNM nursing student's clinical requirements as per newly revised INC syllabus. I hope this diary will help the pediatric students and nurses to review their knowledge and practice in the various aspects of child healthcare.

In this diary, I have used references of many journals written by eminent Indian authors, foreign books, WHO news, and internet. I have invested my best efforts to prepare and enrich this diary, considering the level of the students and the placement of the course according to the INC syllabus. In this clinical diary, unintentional mistakes are regretted and will be rectified.

Hereby suggestions for further enrichment of this diary will be gladly accepted. Constructive criticisms and comments are always heartily welcome. I hope my hard work will be useful for all the pediatric nursing students and clinical nurses.

I feel honor to convey my special thanks and gratitude to our respected Secretary Swami Muktinathananda Ji for his great support, special prayer and blessing for the completion of my project successfully.

I also extend my gratitude to our honorable Professor Mrs Chandini Tyagi, Principal, Vivekananda College of Nursing, Lucknow for her timely suggestion and feedback for the clinical daily diary project.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank honorable Professor Mr I Clement and Professor Mrs Nisha Clement, who have helped and inspired me to take up this project.

This is my great job to say thanks to my principal, respected Professor Dr A Jayasudha, former Principal of Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, for her special guidance and support to complete my project.

I wish to express my special thanks to our honorable Vice Principal, Professor BR Ravi Kumar Msc (N), PhD (Scholar), Vivekananda College of Nursing for his truthful prayers and efforts to complete this project successfully.

I extend my warm thanks to our respected Hostel Administrator Shanthi Mayee Ji, Vivekananda College of Nursing, Lucknow for her special prayer for this project.

I wish to express my special thanks to my dear close friends Mr Prabu [MSc (N)] and Mr Nagaraj [MSc (N)] for their truthful efforts to make this project a success.

My sincere thanks are due to all my seniors, colleagues and friends who encouraged me to write this diary.

I convey my loveable thanks to my dear wife Syama Sudhakar and my sister-in-law Mrs Hema Anil NS, who have given me encouragement to complete this diary.

I convey my heartfelt thanks to my dear sweet daughters SS Jayani Sree and SS Navanya Sree for showing enough patience and their love and affection at the time of my project work and also for the contribution of their photographs in this project.

I convey my special thanks to my dear in-laws Mr Sankaran and Mrs Umadevi for their special prayers for the successful completion of my project.

I express my deep sense of gratitude and thanks to my brother and sister-in-law Mr A Gajendra Prasad, Mrs G Sathya and their children Pooja Hasmi and Bhavan for rendering emotional support during the hardworking period of the preparation of this project.

I convey my heartfelt thanks to Respected Mr Ashwani Kumar Saini, Marketing Executive, Lucknow branch, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, who has helped me to publish this diary successfully within time.

I convey my sincere thanks to especially Shri Jitendar P Vij (Group Chairman), Mr Ankit Vij (Group President), Ms Chetna Malhotra Vohra (Associate Director–Content Strategy), Ms Payal Bharti (Project Manager), Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India for their sincere efforts and suggestions.