Children's and Young People's Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Description

Children's and Young People's Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! is a handy reference book in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style—perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in children's nursing, a core subject for nurses.

The particular conditions, skills, and practice of sick children's nursing are a common component of nurse training, and the curricula for sick children's nursing courses include a heavy emphasis on family-centred care, health promotion and communication skills. This book organizes developmental concerns and childhood disorders in an intuitive way, while weaving a family-centred approach to practice throughout the material.

Taking a developmental approach, the latest information on more than 100 paediatric disorders is included, highlighting collaborative management opportunities that identify appropriate involvement of other health care team members, so vital in clinical practice today.

This informative text assists the nurse in dealing with situations unique to children's care: psychosocial structures of families, common milestones in development, childhood hospitalizations and terminal illnesses, and dosage calculations and techniques for administering medications to children.

Children's and Young People's Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! is for all degree and diploma nursing students.

Contents

1 Introduction to paediatric nursing
2 Concepts in paediatric nursing care
3 Infancy
4 Early childhood
5 Middle childhood and adolescence
6 Communicable and infectious diseases
7 Neurological problems
8 Cardiovascular problems
9 Respiratory problems
10 Urinary problems
11 Musculoskeletal problems
12 Gastrointestinal problems
13 Endocrine and metabolic problems
14 Haematologic and immunologic problems
15 Dermatologic problems
Glossary
Selected references
Web resources
Index

Author

Patric Devitt, BSc, MSc, RGN, RSCN, RNT is Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Salford, Programme Lead for the BSc Nursing (Child).

John Thain is a Senior Lecturer in Child Care Nursing, University of Wolverhampton, specialising in teaching and training in child protection / safeguarding children. John wasfor many years chair and member of the Royal College of Nursing child protection forum and is involved in a number of national projects concerned with developing safeguarding children practice and education. John was also vice-chair of the National Safeguarding Children Association for Nurses.