A Nurse's Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

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Sharon L. Edwards, MSC (Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK) Imelda Coyne (Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

Sharon L. Edwards, MSC (Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK), Imelda Coyne (Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

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Elsevier Health Sciences
02 August 2019

Paediatric nursing

Series: A Nurse's Survival Guide

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

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 safely care for children's 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

By: Sharon L. Edwards MSC (Senior Lecturer School of Nursing and Allied Health Buckinghamshire New University Uxbridge UK), Imelda Coyne (Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Imprint: Elsevier Health Sciences
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 860g
ISBN: 9780702079146
ISBN 10: 0702079146
Series: A Nurse's Survival Guide
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 02 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Replaced By: 9780702047077
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

Sharon L. Edwards, MSC (Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK), Imelda Coyne (Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

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