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Children and Young People's Nursing at a Glance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glasper, Edward Alan.
- Series:
- At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare) Ser.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatric Nursing - methods.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
- Summary:
- Children and Young People's Nursing at a Glance, is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children's nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series. Divided into seven sections it explores assessment and screening, working with families, the newborn infant, the developing child, child health policy, nursing the sick child and young person and chronic and life-limiting conditions. This comprehensive book is an invaluable resource for pre-registration nursing students as well as newly qualified nurses wanting to consolidate and expand their knowledge of children and young people's nursing. Breaks down complex aspects of child health care in an accessible and un-intimidating way The perfect revision and consolidation textbook Linked closely with the NMC standards for pre-registration nursing education, and the essential skills clusters framework Highly visual colour presentation, with approximately 130 illustrations Includes boxes, summary boxes, key points and recommendations for practice to improve the learning experience Supported by a companion website featuring over 500 interactive multiple choice questions (www.ataglanceseries.com/nursing/children) Available in a range of digital formats - perfect for 'on the go' study and revision.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- How to use your revision guide
- About the companion website
- Part 1: Assessment and screening
- 1: Assessment of the child
- Interviewing - history taking
- Observation - subjective data
- Measuring - objective data
- Summary
- 2: SBAR framework
- Inter-professional working
- Communication barriers
- When using SBAR tool the practitioner should aim to:
- 3: The nursing process
- What is nursing theory?
- What is the nursing process?
- Planning care
- 4: Nursing models
- Nursing models used in children and young people's nursing
- How nursing models can be used in practice
- 5: The care plan
- Assessment
- What to assess
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Documentation
- 6: Record keeping
- What constitutes a patient record?
- CIA mnemonic
- Ensuring good record keeping
- What colour ink should nurses use when making records?
- All nurses should follow the no ELBOW rule when making notes
- Problems faced by nurses in keeping records
- How long should records for children be kept?
- 7: Engagement and participation of children and young people
- What are the practical hints and tips that can assist in achieving effective engagement and participation of children and young people?
- What to avoid
- 8: Observation of the well child
- 9: Observation of the sick child
- Introduction
- The importance of observation
- Respiratory rate
- Pulse oximetry
- Pulse
- Capillary Refill Time
- Blood pressure
- Temperature
- Child, young person and family-centred care
- 10: Septic screening
- What is sepsis?
- Stabilization of the infant or child
- Blood tests
- Urine
- Stool sample
- Chest X-ray
- Lumbar puncture for CSF sample
- Swabs
- Consent
- 11: Advanced physical assessment.
- Airway
- Breathing
- Circulation
- Disability
- Exposure
- 12: Developmental assessment
- Genetics and nature versus nurture
- Developmental milestones
- Developmental delay
- Implications for practice
- 13: Paediatric Early Warning Score
- Calculating the Paediatric Early Warning Score
- Limitations
- 14: Paediatric critical care
- Recognition and management of the seriously ill child
- 15: Understanding investigations
- Radiology
- Sampling of cerebrospinal fluid
- Blood samples
- Sputum samples
- Gastric washings
- Nasopharyngeal aspirate
- Per nasal swabs
- Urine samples
- Biopsy
- 16: Understanding blood gas analysis
- pH
- Buffers
- Respiration
- Base deficit
- Renal tubular secretion
- Anion gap
- Sampling
- 17: Understanding blood chemistry
- Electrolytes
- Kidney function
- Liver function
- Acid-base balance
- 18: Understanding pathology specimen collection
- Important principles when collecting specimens
- Obtaining blood samples
- Urine collection
- Stool specimens
- Transporting specimens
- 19: Understanding X-rays
- How do X-rays work?
- What is radiation?
- The importance of staying still
- Other types of imaging
- 20: Pulse oximetry
- The pulse oximeter
- The pulse oximeter probe
- Indications for use and clinical application
- Limitations of pulse oximetry
- 21: Central venous devices
- Types of CVAD
- Non-tunnelled devices
- Peripherally inserted central catheters
- Tunnelled devices
- Implantable ports
- Accessing CVADs
- Care of CVADs
- General principles
- Complications
- 22: Tracheostomy care
- Stoma and skin care
- Suctioning
- Humidification
- Tube changes
- Safety
- Communication
- Feeding
- 23: Infant resuscitation
- Unresponsive - shout for help!
- Open airway
- Not breathing normally?
- Rescue breaths
- Signs of life.
- No signs of life
- 24: Young person resuscitation
- Safe to approach
- Stimulate
- Shout
- Airway
- Definitive care
- 25: Resuscitation drugs
- Adrenaline
- Amiodarone
- Atropine
- Adenosine
- Glucose
- 26: Emergency care
- Nursing competency
- The unwell baby
- Common presentations in preschool children
- Common presentations in school-aged children
- Common presentations in adolescents
- Safeguarding
- Part 2: Working with families
- 27: Partnership
- Effective partnership
- Partnership and the multidisciplinary team
- Parental stress and partnership
- Mothers and fathers
- Parental needs
- 28: Family centred care
- What is family?
- Models that facilitate a family centred approach to care
- Casey model
- Nottingham model
- Advantages of family centred care
- Advantages for the child
- Advantages for the family
- Advantages for professionals and organizations
- Challenges of family centred care
- 29: Family health promotion
- What is important to the family?
- Family membership
- Being together
- Family influence
- Being busy
- Local community
- Friendships
- Personal possessions
- Having fun
- Challenges to family health promotion
- 30: Communicating with children
- Factors influencing communication
- Children
- Young people
- Communicating in specific environments
- 31: Hospital play
- What constitutes hospital play?
- Effects of a hospital admission
- Role of the hospital play specialist
- Stages of hospital preparation
- 32: Role of the community children's nurse
- Prevalence of chronic illness in childhood
- Benefits of home care for children with a chronic illness
- Role of the community children's nurse
- 33: Collaboration with schools
- 34: Family information leaflets
- Writing patient information leaflets.
- Consider the content and style of the leaflet
- Use the 10 principles of clear writing
- Consider the order of the information in your leaflet
- Producing the leaflet
- 35: Safeguarding
- From Maria Colwell (1973) to Peter Connolly (2007)
- Munro Report
- Northern Ireland
- Rest of the UK
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- 36: Fabricated or induced illness
- 37: Gaining consent or assent
- 38: Clinical holding
- Considerations
- Pre-holding considerations
- Child-focused considerations
- Considerations for the nurse
- Parent-focused considerations
- Care during clinical holding
- Post-holding considerations
- 39: Breaking bad or significant news
- Preparing to break bad news
- Supporting the family when bad news is given
- After the bad news has been broken
- 40: Care of the dying child
- Quality care for the dying child and family
- Physical needs
- Psychosocial needs
- Spiritual needs
- 41: Dealing with aggression
- What is aggression?
- What causes aggression?
- Emotional or impulsive aggression
- Triggers of aggression
- De-escalating physical aggression
- 42: Minimizing the effects of hospitalization
- The experience of hospitalization
- Experience of the child
- Experience of parents
- Interventions and adverse experiences of hospital
- The environment
- The staff
- Circumstance
- Interventions
- Interventions to alleviate the impact of hospitalization
- Hospitals and children's units
- Staff
- 43: Transition
- Challenges to transitioning to home
- Assessing needs for discharge to home
- Specific needs
- Integrated care pathway
- Part 3: The newborn infant
- 44: Fetal development
- Pre-embryonic development
- Embryonic development
- Fetal development
- Fetal circulation
- Fetal blood flow
- Adaptation at birth
- Other factors
- Adaptation of other systems at birth.
- 45: Neonatal examination
- 46: Neonatal screening tests
- Neonatal screening programmes
- Sample collection and analysis
- Conditions commonly screened
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Congenital hypothyroidism (CHT)
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Sickle cell disease (SCD)
- Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD)
- 47: The premature baby
- Causes of prematurity
- Outcome
- 48: Neonatal transport
- Planning a transport
- Organization and management of a transport
- 49: Jaundice and hyperbilirubinaemia
- Physiology of bilirubin
- Hyperbilirubinaemia
- Causes
- Jaundice that persists for longer than 2 weeks
- Obstructive jaundice or biliary atresia
- Investigations of jaundice
- Management of jaundice
- Phototherapy
- Care of a baby having phototherapy
- 50: Congenital heart disease
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis
- Common conditions
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Septal defects
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Management of cardiac disease
- Follow-up and prognosis
- 51: Neonatal resuscitation
- Preparation and readiness
- Keep infants warm: avoid heat loss
- Initial assessment at birth
- Follow ABC approach
- Drugs
- Central venous access for drug administration
- Babies needing specialist neonatal care
- Parents, communication, record keeping
- 52: Incubator/Babytherm care
- Heat balance
- Heat loss
- Four mechanisms of heat transfer
- Radiation
- Conduction
- Convection
- Evaportation
- Incubator and Babytherm management and care
- Incubator
- Babytherm
- Weaning from an incubator or Babytherm
- 53: Sudden infant death syndrome
- Definition
- Incidence
- Measures in place to reduce the risk
- Advice to parents to help reduce the risks
- Smoking
- Part 4: The developing child
- 54: Nutrition in childhood
- Importance of good nutritional assessment.
- Nutrition in the under-fives.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Glasper, Alan Children and Young People's Nursing at a Glance
- ISBN:
- 9781118516263
- OCLC:
- 896833831
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