1st Edition

Children and Young People's Nursing Principles for Practice

By Ruth Davies, Alyson Davies Copyright 2011

    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


    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

    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

    Biography

    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