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

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Elsevier Health Sciences | e druk, 2019
ISBN13: 9780702079146
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Elsevier Health Sciences e druk, 2019 9780702079146
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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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ISBN13:9780702079146
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback

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<p>1 General principles of children’s nursing</p> <p>1.1: Introduction </p> <p>1.2:    Health and Safety</p> <p>1.3: Emergency care of a child</p> <p>1.4:    Life threatening complications</p> <p>2 Assessment and investigations of a child</p> <p>2.1: Paediatric scoring systems</p> <p>2.2: Assessment of a child</p> <p>2.3: Haemodynamic monitoring of a child</p> <p>2.4: Diagnostic procedures</p> <p>3 Children’s nursing interventions</p> <p>3.1:  General interventions</p> <p>3.2:  Specific interventions</p> <p>3.3: Caring for a child in a variety of situations</p> <p>3.4:  Caring for a child in a variety of settings</p> <p>4 Common conditions in children and reasons for admission </p> <p>4.1: General condition in children: a systems approach</p> <p>4.2: Other conditions observed in children</p> <p>4.3: Mental health conditions in children</p> <p>5 Psychological and ethical care</p> <p>5.1: Professional and practice issues</p> <p>5.2: Psychosocial issues</p> <p>5.3: Palliative care of a child</p> <p>6 Drug administration</p> <p>6.1:  General aspects</p> <p>6.2:     Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics </p> <p>6.3:  Classification of drugs used in children</p> <p>6.4: Medication management</p> <p>References </p> <p>Appendix 1 Normal vital signs </p> <p>Appendix 2 Units of measurement </p> <p>Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations </p> <p>Glossary </p> <p>Index </p>

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