A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition E-Book
Key Features
What will you find in this UPDATED edition:
- Answers to some of your questions about embarking on your career into children's nursing;
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How to safely care for children's needs in the ward according to their age and stage of their development;
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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
ISBN | 9780702079153-vst |
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Author Information | By Sharon L. Edwards, EdD SFHEA NTF MSc PGCEA DipN(Lon) RN , Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK and Imelda Coyne, BSc(Hons) MA PhD DipN RSCN RGN RNT FEANS FTCD, Professor and Co-Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Table of Content | 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 |
Publication Date | 13-07-2019 |
Pages | 512 |
Trim | 229 x 152 (6 x 9) |
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