Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of this prize-winning title retains the high level of illustration and accessibility that has made it so popular worldwide with medical students and trainees approaching clinical specialty exams. Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics has been translated into eight languages over its life.
The authors of the handbook are a group of experienced paediatric anaesthetists who have each distilled their area of expertise into a concise summary of current best practice. The result is factual, practical, and easy to access.
Offers a everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. This book includes chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition that help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.
Reflects the trend towards a core curriculum and self-directed learning. This book's content is restricted to the 'must know' core information presented in a synoptic style. Each chapter ends with a selection of self-assessment material and full explanatory answers.
Provides information on paediatric nutrition. This book also provides a scientific foundation, guidelines and identifies various difficulties and issues. It describes interdisciplinary working and challenges topics such as ethnic and cultural aspects, poverty and children's rights. It provides information and guidance to health professionals.
"Fascinating and upbeat... Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist."-Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Letters to a Young Therapist
This innovative and student-friendly textbook provides up to date information on the core content of child nursing courses and helps students understand how it applies to practice. Covering all settings throughout, it focuses on the importance of child and family centred care.
Now in its fourth edition, Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy is a concise guide to obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia, reviewing every topic and clinical challenge faced during delivery and focusing on pre-empting problems and maximising quality of care. Useful to anaesthetists of all grades and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Covers the well child to the sick child / neonates to adolescents
* Single user friendly access point for a wide range of key information that children's nurses may need at any time
* Hospital and community issues are covered
* Evidence based
* Compiled in line with NMC Education Guidelines 2018
Paediatrics at a Glance provides an introduction to paediatrics and the problems encountered in child health as they present in primary, community and secondary care, from birth through to adolescence.
This innovative and student-friendly textbook provides up to date information on the core content of child nursing courses and helps students understand how it applies to practice. Covering all settings throughout, it focuses on the importance of child and family centred care.
Childhood pain is a widespread problem, yet it often goes untreated. Drawing on the latest research, two leading voices on pediatric pain show parents and medical practitioners how to handle children's pain, from bumps and bruises to chronic illnesses, providing strategies that make a real difference in kids' lives.
This book helps nursing students and those applying for nursing courses succeed first time in nursing calculations tests and get calculations right in practice.
A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct.
There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. This book provides you with strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems.
Research has shown that kids who don't get enough sleep are far more likely to have behavior problems, be overweight, and have learning problems. This book provides parents with solutions to various sleep-related problems of children ages 2 through 6.
Designed as a compelling text for students, Clinical Skills in Children's Nursing offers evidence-based and family centred practical guidance for procedures in all care settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of decision-making skills and sensitive care. It is enhanced by illustrations, online resources, and regular updates to evidence.
Organizes developmental concerns and childhood disorders in an intuitive way, while weaving a family-centred approach to practice throughout the material. This title assists the nurse in dealing with situations to children's care: psychosocial structures of families, common milestones in development, and more.
This text presents information covering many of the key aspects of the biology of child health from conception to adolescence. Explicit links are made between physiological development and the assessment of the child's health.
The Oxford Handbook of Children's and Young People's Nursing second edition provides concise, practical and expert advice on all aspects of the nurse's role. Written for both practising and student nurses, it is a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of children and young people in a family context.
Intended for those parents who are in need of calm and wise advice on parenting the 5-12 year age group. This book enables parents to understand their child's needs and development during their pre-teen years. It takes account of the physical, psychological and sociological influences that are of importance during this time.
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.
An exploration of what it means to be a grandmother and how she can understand tensions in the family, communicate effectively with her daughter or daughter-in-law, offer emotional support when it is needed and enjoy her grandchildren.
Serves as a clinically focused text that outlines important components to be considered when assessing and managing health problems among infants, children and adolescents. This work aims to provide nurse practitioners with information that has immediate relevance to their practice in paediatrics. It is divided into two parts.
To lose a child is not 'appropriate' and the feelings involved become even more difficult to deal with. This practical text offers a range of ideas and materials that can assist reflective, research-based clinical practice in this area. It is useful for all health professionals, as well as for students undertaking postgraduate study.
New edition of a successful, well respected text Encourages reflection, critical analysis and exploration User friendly and interactive with activities throughout Comprehensive and authoritative Fully updated to include latest policy guidelines Previously published by Nelson Thornes.
'This is an excellent and informative text for Child Health Nursing students. It has interesting case studies that cover care issues as well as considering the use of audit. The book looks at children's nursing worldwide and is not just UK based' - Miss Mel Webb, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bedfordshire University
Presents a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freud's dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about children's dreams. This title provides a description of Freud's observations on child dreaming and also presents the results obtained from four empirical studies on children's dreams.
Offers descriptions of clinical procedures for nursing students and newly qualified staff nurses for their everyday working lives within the child field of practice. This book details the crucial considerations which encompass risk assessment, consent and child safeguarding. It includes exercise to help readers practice and hone their skills.
This updated and expanded edition challenges many widely held views on the links between poverty and child health. It brings together new evidence, both historical and contemporary, and considers the practical implications for health and social policy.