Essentials of Nursing Children and Young People

Jayne Price, Orla McAlinden, Zoë Veal, Jayne Price, Orla McAlinden, Zoë Veal

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781529767346
• eBook ISBN: 9781529787160
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

This book is a one-stop shop for the vast majority of children and young people?s nursing students. The editors for the new edition are Jayne Price from Kingston University, Orla McAlinden previously from Queen?s University Belfast, and ZoëVeal from UWE Bristol, all with vast experience in nursing children and young people. A high level of research has gone into developing and refining the key features for this edition, such as updated voices and implementing new NMC standards. This book maps to the content of the majority of pre-registration child nursing programmes, and by adopting a 5 part structure it clearly covers the core parts of training and practice that you will need: Part 1): Principles of nursing children and young people
Part 2): Wellbeing and development
Part 3): Caring for children and young people with acute health care needs and injury
Part 4): Caring for children and young people with complex and high dependency needs
Part 5): Being a professional children and young people?s nurse

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Online Resources
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Foreword
• Publisher’s Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART 1 Principles of nursing children and young people
• 1 Involving children, young people and families in care
• 2 Effective communication with children and young people
• 3 Assessment and management of pain in children and young people
• 4 Medication: management, administration and compliance/concordance
• 5 Interprofessional working
• 6 Organisation and settings for care of children and young people
• 7 Community care and care in non-hospital settings for children and young people
• 8 Law and policy for children and young people’s nursing
• 9 Safeguarding children and young people
• PART 2 Child and infant wellbeing and development
• 10 Genetics and epigenetics: effects on children and young people
• 11 Infant mental wellbeing and health or ‘how to grow a healthy adult’
• 12 Factors influencing wellbeing and development in children and young people
• 13 Universal screening and the role of the health visitor
• PART 3 Caring for children and young people with acute healthcare needs and injury
• 14 Assessment and care of children and young people with acute needs
• 15 Preparing children and young people for hospitalisation
• 16 Care of children and young people in the peri- and postoperative recovery period
• 17 Care of children and young people with respiratory problems
• 18 Care of children and young people with cardiovascular problems
• 19 Care of children and young people with neurological problems
• 20 Care of children and young people with urinary and renal problems
• 21 Care of children and young people with endocrine problems
• 22 Care of children and young people with immunological problems
• 23 Care of children and young people with musculoskeletal problems
• 24 Care of children and young people with haematological problems
• 25 Care of children and young people with a thermal injury
• 26 Care of children and young people with fluid and electrolyte imbalance
• 27 Care of children and young people with gastrointestinal problems
• 28 Discharge planning and transfer for children and young people
• PART 4 Caring for children and young people with complex and high dependency needs
• 29 Care of highly dependent and critically ill children and young people
• 30 Care of the neonate
• 31 Care of children and young people with a malignant condition
• 32 Care of children and young people with life-limiting illness
• 33 Care of children and young people at the end of life
• 34 Care of children and young people with learning disabilities
• 35 Care of children and young people with mental health issues
• PART 5 On being a professional children’s nurse
• 36 Leadership and management in children and young people’s nursing
• 37 Lifelong learning and continuing professional development IN children and young people’s NURSING
• 38 Decision-making and accountability in children and young people’s nursing
• Index