A Survival Guide to Children's Nursing - Updated Edition

Book excerpt: 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