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A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing

  • 1st Edition - August 22, 2012
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sharon L. Edwards, Imelda Coyne
  • Language: English

Starting a new placement? Moving to a new specialty? Revising?This ‘Survival Guide’ will give you the help you need with the procedures and problems faced by nurses tod… Read more

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Starting a new placement? Moving to a new specialty? Revising?
This ‘Survival Guide’ will give you the help you need with the procedures and problems faced by nurses today.

Key features

  • Organising your job and yourself
  • Working with patients
  • Clinical information on a wide range of conditions
  • Legal, health and safety issues
  • Pocket-sized for convenience
  • Bullet-points for quick reference
  • Great revision aid!

Readership

Student Nurses - child branch; paediatric nurses

Table of contents

    1. General principles of children’s nursing

    1.1 Introduction

    1.2 Emergency care of a child

    2. Assessment and investigations of a child

    1. Identification of problems and scoring systems

    2. Assessment of a child

    3. Haemodynamic monitoring of a child

    4. Diagnostic procedures

      5. 3. Children’s nursing interventions

      1. Interventions

      2. Maintaining nutrition in children

      3. Peritoneal dialysis (PD)

      4. Plasmapheresis

      5. Transplantation

      6. Circulatory support

      7. Intubation and ventilation of a child

      8. Acid-base balance

      9. Caring for a child in a variety of settings

        10. 4.

         Common conditions in children and reasons for admission

        4.1 General conditions in children: a systems approach

        4.2 Other conditions observed in children

        4.3 Mental ill health in children

        5. Psychosocial and ethical care

        1. Professional and practice issues

          2. 5.2 Psychosocial issues

            1. Palliative care of a child

          6.

           Drug administration

          6.1 Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

          6.2 Medicines management

          6.3 Classifications of drugs used in children

          References

          Appendix 1 Normal vital signs

          Appendix 2 Units of measurement

          Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations

          Useful websites

          Glossary of terms and abbreviations

          Index

        Review quotes

        "This user friendly, pocket-sized text book is a practical and evidence-based guide providing those in the early stages of their careers as children's nurses with clinical information and insights in a concise, structured and informative way to assist and support them in obtaining the knowledge required and clinical skills needed to nurse children today...It makes an excellent starting point and source of reference for those involved in nursing children and young people."

        Nursing Times, April 2013

        Product details

        • Edition: 1
        • Latest edition
        • Published: October 17, 2012
        • Language: English

        About the authors

        SE

        Sharon L. Edwards

        Affiliations and expertise
        Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK

        IC

        Imelda Coyne

        Affiliations and expertise
        Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland