A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition, 1e

Description:

Are you working as a children’s nurse or doing a placement on a children’s ward? Are you studying to become a great professional involved in nursing children and young people? This user friendly, easy to carry textbook is a practical and evidence-based guide which provides those in the early stages of their careers with clinical information and insights.

This book will help you to:

• Gather all the information you need to work with patients, in a concise and structure way;
• Obtain the knowledge required and clinical skills needed on a wide range of conditions;
• Have an excellent starting point and great revision aid to refer to when in doubt;

What will you find in this UPDATED edition:

• Answers to some of your questions about embarking on your career into children’s nursing;
• How to satisfy children’s requirements and needs in the ward according to their age and stage of their development;
• Examples on legal, health and safety issues;
• Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field.

Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series

Table Of Contents:

1 General principles of children’s nursing

1. 1: Introduction

1. 2:    Health and Safety

1. 3: Emergency care of a child

1. 4:    Life threatening complications

2 Assessment and investigations of a child

2. 1: Paediatric scoring systems

2. 2: Assessment of a child

2. 3: Haemodynamic monitoring of a child

2. 4: Diagnostic procedures

3 Children’s nursing interventions

3. 1: General interventions

3. 2: Specific interventions

3. 3: Caring for a child in a variety of situations

3. 4: Caring for a child in a variety of settings

4 Common conditions in children and reasons for admission

4. 1: General condition in children: a systems approach

4. 2: Other conditions observed in children

4. 3: Mental health conditions in children

5 Psychological and ethical care

5. 1: Professional and practice issues

5. 2: Psychosocial issues

5. 3: Palliative care of a child

6 Drug administration

6. 1: General aspects

6. 2: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

6. 3: Classification of drugs used in children

6. 4: Medication management

References

Appendix 1 Normal vital signs

Appendix 2 Units of measurement

Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations

Glossary

Index