A textbook of children's and young people's nursing / E. Alan Glasper, Jim Richardson [editors].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Essentials of children\'s nursing:- 1. Historical perspectives of children\'s nursing--2. Working with children and their families--3. Contemporary child health policy: the implications for children\'s nurses--4. Cultural aspects of children\'s nursing--5. The psychological preparation of children for hospitalisation--6. Family centred care--7. Assessing and planning care in partnership--8. Public health, primary health care and the development of community children\'s nursing--9. Family responses to ill health and admission to hospital--10. Communicating with children and their families--11.The dynamic child - children\'s psychological development and its application to care delivery--12. Physical growth and development in children--13. Preparing the family for stressful life events, child life and the role of therapeutic play--14. The evidence base for children\'s nursing practice--15. Involving children in healthcare research--16. Ensuring quality and the role of clinical audit--17.The management of acute pain in children--18. Children and surgery--19. Protecting children: the role of the children\'s nurse--20. Ethics in children\'s nursing--21. Legal aspects of child health care--22. Assessing children\'s health needs over the telephone: using NHS Direct as an example--23. The role of Paediatric Emergency Assessment Units (PEAU)--24. Emergency department management of sick children-- Section 2: Knowledge and skills for practice:- 25. Children with complex motor disability--26. Caring for children with fluid and electrolyte imbalance--27. Caring for children with genitourinary problems--28. Respiratory illness in children--29. Caring for children with gastrointestinal problems--30. Caring for children with cardiovascular problems--31. Caring for children: the role of the immune system in protecting against disease--32. Caring for children and adolescents with malignant disease--33. Caring for a child with neurological dysfunction--34. Caring for children with diabetes and other endocrine disorders--35. Caring for children with orthopaedic disorders-- Section 3: Health problems and health pronmotion:- 36. Prevention of childhood injuries--37. Information is the key to empowerment--38. Inherited conditions and the family--39. Health problems of the neonate--40. Health problems during infancy--41. Health problems in early childhood--42. Health needs of middle childhood--43. Child and adolescent mental health: the nursing response-- Section 4: Caring for children with special needs:- 44. Chronic illness and the family--45. Caring for children with critical illness--46. Care of the child requiring palliative care--47. Children with learning disabilities.

This new textbook is aimed at children's and young people's nurses in a wide range of practice settings. Rooted in child-centred health care within a family context, the book draws upon best contemporary practice throughout the UK and further afield.