A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

Sharon L. Edwards, Imelda Coyne

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780702079153
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Pedriatic Nursing

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

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Series Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Section 1. General Principles of Children's Nursing
• Section 2. Assessment and Investigations of a Child
• Section 3. Children's Nursing Interventions
• Section 4. Common Conditions in Children and Reasons for Admission
• Section 5. Psychosocial and Ethical Care
• Section 6. Drug Administration
• References
• Appendix 1. Normal Vital Signs
• Appendix 2. Units of Measurement
• Appendix 3. Drug Measurement and Calculations
• Appendix 4. Useful Websites
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
• Index