Children and Young People's Nursing

Summary:
Children and Young People's Nursing provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing children's nurses today. It focuses on developing best practice and implementing high quality care.
 
This book covers the wide range of general and specialist care settings in which children and young people's nurses work, including schools, the community and mental health. Written by a team of experts from across the UK, it emphasizes throughout the fundamental principles of contemporary children's nursing, such as family-centred care, safeguarding and the need for a culturally sensitive and rights-based approach to care. This is an essential text for all children's nursing students, as well as a useful reference for qualified nurses looking to update their practice.

Key features
- All chapters are underpinned by current policies and the latest research
- Key points, reflection points, principles for practice boxes and cas studies to aid learning
- Concludes with a section on building your portfolio and advancing your practice and career

• Provides a critical analysis of what is best practice and how standards and high quality care can be assured
• All chapters are underpinned by current policies
• Differences between the four UK countries are highlighted throughout
• Key points, reflective points, case studies and exemplars to aid learning
• Companion website including chapter key points PowerPoints, MCQs and sample material

Table of Contents:
Part 1: Children and young people’s nursing in context
The development of children’s nursing
Family-centred care and the evolving role of fathers
The need for a culturally sensitive approach to care
Part 2: A rights-based approach to care
4. The right for children and young people to participate in their own health care
Safeguarding children and young people
The use of restraint
Principles of pain management and entitlement to pain relief
Part 3: Care settings
School nursing
Community children’s nursing
Child and adolescent mental health
Caring for children and young people with complex mental health problems
Transitional care for children and young people with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions
Part 4: Advancing practice and developing a career in children and young people’s nursing
Developing a professional portfolio
Advanced practice in children and young people’s nursing

About the Author(s):
Ruth Davies RGN, RSCN, RHV, MA PhD PG CertEd.
Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People's Nursing,
Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Alyson Davies RGN, RSCN, BSc MN PG Cert Ed.
Lecturer in Children and Young People's Nursing,
Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Readership:
Pre-registration nursing students on the child branch; Post-registration students working with children and young people in a range of settings, including community children’s nursing, health visiting