
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition
Description
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 592
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: July 13, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702079146
- eBook ISBN: 9780702079153
About the Authors
Sharon Edwards
Affiliations and Expertise
Imelda Coyne
Affiliations and Expertise
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