Pediatric category: 156 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The skills required by children’s nurses are many and varied, and are undertaken in a variety of settings. This book provides a clinical manual of common practices. Each practice is research-based and presented in a common format which covers: Objectives, Rationale, Factors to note, Guidelines,...
Neonatal Nursing Care Handbook, Second Edition
An Evidence-Based Approach to Conditions and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Neonatal nurses face an ever-changing practice landscape that requires swift decisions and actions. This is an up-to-date, comprehensive, quick reference resource written specifically for neonatal nurses throughout the globe. Designed for speedy information retrieval, it encompasses vital information...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 1
Skin Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
198 pages, 601 images, 9 contributors Skin injuries are among the most common, and, certainly, the most visible, symptoms of physical abuse in children. Because professionals working with children will, at times, encounter such injuries, it is vital they be able to recognize abusive burns, bruises,...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 1
Physical Abuse and Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributors The first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children. The clinical text includes essential information for professionals who work to identify,...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 2
Sexual Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
456 pages, 350 images, with 36 contributors Volume two in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children. The clinical text includes new and revised content on topics that are...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 3
Head Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
258 pages, 606 images, 28 contributors Of the injuries inflicted on physically abused children, head injuries are, in many cases, among the most damaging and potentially lethal. First responders and medical practitioners encountering children with head injuries may need to take quick and decisive...
by Judith P. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
To give children with congenital developmental conditions that manifest special learning needs and specific disabilities their best chance to succeed, early identification and appropriate interventions and support, is necessary.
This text highlights what to look for when there are concerns...
Empowerment, Health Promotion and Young People
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Globally, young people’s health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people’s health. Yet the concept of empowerment remains under-theorized, and its...
by Judith Hendrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Law and Ethics in Children's Nursing is an important and practical guide on the legal and ethical spects of child healthcare that enables nurses to understand the legal and ethical principles that underpin everyday nursing practice. It explores the concept of childhood and children's rights, the extent...
Early Arrival
9 Things Parents Need to Know About Life in the ICU Nursery A Doctor's Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
No parent wants to be in the intensive care nursery. It’s a frightening, often overwhelming place full of alarms, machines, doctors, and nurses—and, most terrifying of all, full of tiny babies fighting to survive. Parents who had planned to welcome their child home are faced with seeing that child...
Child Behavioral and Parenting Challenges for Advanced Practice Nurses
A Reference for Front-line Health Care Providers
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Front-line nurse practitioners are increasingly required to assess, identify, manage, and refer the complex and often significant childhood behavioral challenges occurring among children and adolescents. This authoritative and comprehensive behavior management reference provides nursing health care...
Extreme Caregiving
The Moral Work of Raising Children with Special Needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Parents who care for children with special needs, particularly those whose children have multiple disabilities or intellectual delays, are pioneers in home health care and caregiving, yet their experience and expertise are rarely recognized. This book collects parent narratives, personal experience,...
The Newly Qualified Nurse's Handbook
A Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
This book has been prepared by professionals working in the UK. It is not a primer on clinical skills but an indispensable handbook and resource for the new nurses who are about to embark on their first job and need to develop nursing judgment and the ability to organise and deliver care. It is about...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Emergency nursing requires rapid assessment and decision-making. Often nurses are required to make sense of considerable amounts of information and act on it. The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing provides an essential resource when time is short and the need for practical clinical guidance is...