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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

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Author:   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)
Publisher:   Elsevier Health Sciences
Imprint:   Elsevier Health Sciences
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9780702079146

ISBN 10:   0702079146
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   02 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780702047077
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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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

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