A Textbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing E-Book: A Textbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing E-Book

by Edward Alan Glasper PhD, BA, RSCN, RGN, ONC, DN, CertEd, RNT, James Richardson PhD, BA, RGN, RSCN, PGCE

Overview

This popular textbook is aimed at children’s nurses in a wide range of practice settings including primary, ambulatory, and tertiary care. Covering the full age and specialty spectrum this text brings together chapters from among the best-known children’s nurses in the UK. It describes family-centred child healthcare drawing upon practice throughout the UK and further afield.

This innovative text provides up to date information on a wide range of topics. Each chapter offers readers additional material on Evolve. Full Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that facilitate interactive learning augment the written chapters and provide information not normally possible in a standard textbook e.g. colour photographs, video clips.

Although intended for nurses the book adopts an interprofessional, problem-solving and reflective approach aimed at students, practitioners and child health educators. Material is offered from levels 1-3 and some of the ancillary material extends into the postgraduate arena.

Each chapter offers readers additional material on an Evolve website. Full Microsoft PowerPoint presentations augment the written chapters and provide extra information that includes case studies, moving image, photographs and text.

Aims, objectives, learning outcomes, a summary box in each chapter and key points assist learning and understanding

Professional conversation boxes enliven the text on the page and make it more interesting to dip into

Suggestions for seminar discussion topics to help teachers

Case studies help to relate theory to practice

Prompts to promote reflective practice

Activity boxes/suggested visits

Evidence based practice boxes which highlight key research studies, annotated bibliographies including details of web-sites and full contemporary references to the evidence base

Resource lists including recommended web-site addresses

New chapter on blood disorders of childhood.

New material on caring for young people and transitions in care.

More on childhood eczema, childhood and adolescent mental health, solid tumours of childhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702044403
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	05/19/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	776
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Essentials of children’s nursing. Historical perspectives of children’s nursing. Working with children and their families. Contemporary child health policy: the implications for children’s nurses. Cultural aspects of children’s nursing. The psychological preparation of children for hospitalisation. Family centred care. Assessing and planning care in partnership. Public health, primary health care and the development of community children’s nursing. Family responses to ill health and admission to hospital. Communicating with children and their families. The dynamic child – children’s psychological development and its application to care delivery. Physical growth and development in children. Preparing the family for stressful life events, child life and the role of therapeutic play. The evidence base for children’s nursing practice. Involving children in healthcare research. Ensuring quality and the role of clinical audit. The management of acute pain in children. Children and surgery. Protecting children: the role of the children’s nurse. Ethics in children’s nursing. Legal aspects of child health care. Assessing children’s health needs over the telephone: using NHS Direct as an example. The role of Paediatric Emergency Assessment Units (PEAU). Emergency department management of sick children.

Section 2 Knowledge and skills for practice. Children with complex motor disability. Caring for children with fluid and electrolyte imbalance. Caring for children with genitourinary problems. Respiratory illness in children. Caring for children with gastrointestinal problems. Caring for children with cardiovascular problems. Caring for children: the role of the immune system in protecting against disease. Caring for children and adolescents with malignant disease. Caring for a child with neurological dysfunction. Caring for children with diabetes and other endocrine disorders. Caring for children with orthopaedic disorders.

Section 3 Health problems and health promotion. Prevention of childhood injuries. Information giving is the key to family empowerment. Inherited conditions and the family. Health problems of the neonate. Health problems during infancy. Health problems in early childhood. Health needs of middle childhood. Child and adolescent mental health: the nursing response.

Section 4 Caring for children with special needs. Chronic illness and the family. Caring for children with critical illness. Care of the child requiring palliative care. Children with learning disabilities.