Description

Children's Nurses require excellent clinical skills to provide high quality care to children and young people across a range of different ages. After the first year of their training, children's nursing students must master skills of increasing complexity whilst developing clinical judgement and confidence. Therefore, it is vital that links are made to children's biology and development, family needs, legal issues and problem solving but until now, it has been hard to find all this in one place.

Clinical Skills for Children's Nursing is designed for children's and general nursing students in second year onwards to facilitate the transition from closely supervised beginners, to qualified professionals. By clearly explaining essential principles, evidence and special considerations, this text helps students to build up their confidence, not just in performing skills, but also in decision-making in readiness for registration and beyond.

Step-by-step guides to performing core and advanced procedures are presented in tables for easy comprehension and revision, illustrated by photographs and drawings. Each skill draws on the available evidence base, which is updated regularly on the accompanying Online Resource Centre.

Uniquely, this text develops students' critical thinking skills and ability to deliver child centred care by providing clear links to anatomical, physiological and child development milestones as well as regular nursing alerts which help prevent readers from making common mistakes.

Clearly reflecting the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Essential Skills Clusters for registration and beyond, Clinical Skills for Children's Nursing is designed to support student nurses develop into competent practitioners. Supported by a dedicated Online Resource Centre with up-to-date evidence, realistic scenarios, and a wealth of other tools.

On the Online Resource Centre:

For registered lecturers and mentors:
- Figures from the book, ready to download and use in teaching material

For students:
- Evidence, guidelines and protocols, reviewed and updated every 6 months
- Over 40 interactive scenarios
- Active web links provide a gateway to the articles cited in the book
- Flashcard glossary to help learn key terms

Features

• Active learning: over 40 realistic scenarios, interactive glossary and hyperlinks provided on the Online Resource Centre allow readers to take their learning further.
  
• Online support for lecturers and mentors: access to the diagrams and photos from the book, in addition to interactive scenarios for teaching.
  
• Covers the clinical skills required for registration and beyond (including NMC's Essential Skills Clusters): includes all the skills pre-registration students need to know and advanced skills are still valuable for qualified practice.
  
• Both theory and practice are provided: written, edited and reviewed by both academics and practitioners to help readers integrate their practical abilities and background knowledge.
  
• All the relevant information in one place: step-by-step guidance and rationales for all procedures, plus the relevant anatomy and physiology, developmental ranges as well as family centred needs, ensures all vital issues are covered.
  
• Aids family centred care: communication skills and practical tips for family centred care are threaded throughout so students can confidently deliver skills in partnership with children and families.
  
• Evidence will remain current: evidence, guidelines and protocols reviewed and updated every six months on the book's accompanying Online Resource Centre.
  
• Suitable for all children's nursing settings: both hospital and primary care settings so readers can transfer their skills.
  
• Supports students' development from novice to professional: guides students to relevant prior knowledge to build on, highlights important points to remember, and suggests further reading.
  
• Develops decision-making skills: outlines how to adapt the skills for different age groups, whilst nursing alerts anticipate and solve potential problems, and show how to recognise patient deterioration.
  
• Clear visual guidance: photos and diagrams throughout
  

Product Details

560 pages; 52 line drawing and photos; 10.4 x 7.7; ISBN13: 978-0-19-955903-9ISBN10: 0-19-955903-1

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