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Fundamental Aspects of Children & Young Peoples Nursing Procedures
Quay books, July 2007, Pages: 424
So often we hear that children and young people’s nursing is changing more now than ever before. It remains a view inextricably linked to even further technological advances. But is this the whole story? And what does it mean to the children’s nurse in hospital or the community? Is children and young people’s nursing care provision really altering beyond merely learning future aftercare of new treatments? Change is occurring from a variety of angles that clearly impact not only on healthcare provision on the wider scale, but also the grass roots of individual children’s nurse practitioners.
This book embodies the knowledge of numerous nurses working with children and young people, and its primary purpose is to provide information on the fundamental aspects and essential requirements of nursing care for children, young people and their family or carer. The child or young person is an integral member of the family. Children and young people’s nursing care is most effective when it is integrated with the value and belief that family-centred care is crucial. When a child or young person is healthy, the child’s health is enhanced if the family is a fully functioning health-promoting system. The family can be made up of many different structures, each with the potential to provide a caring, supportive environment in which the child and/or young person can grow, mature and maximise his or her potential.
This book is remarkable for its honesty about the essential and fundamental aspects of nursing care of babies, children, young people and their families or carers. There are two main questions which we should ask ourselves as nurses who work with babies, children, young people and their families and carers. The first is, do fundamental aspects of nursing care influence the nursing profession? The second, does this book help babies, children, young people and their families to be prepared and recover more effectively?
Scientific evidence in favour of both of these issues is slowly building up. The broader your knowledge about children and young people’s nursing, the more interesting you are as a children’s nurse, and this allows you to see babies, children and young people in a different way. In addition, I have seen the growth and increased self-confidence of nurses caring for babies, children, young people and their families or carers; their quality of life during this time is fulfilling for all.
The book is designed to support the learning needs of nurses, not only by virtue of its design, but also by the level of knowledge acquisition it facilitates. It must be noted here that by knowledge acquisition I do not simply mean the supply of relevant and up-to-date information - important though this may be. The claim here is that higher levels of knowledge extend beyond the learning environment to absorb and reproduce information in the same form that it is conveyed. It includes the capacity to understand and apply knowledge to nursing practice with babies, children, young people and their families and carers. These are vitally important aspects of knowledge in children and young people’s nursing today.
This book provides a sensible compromise between a lengthy discussion of basic sciences on the one hand, and a didactic handbook on the other. It will be an excellent source of information for nurses learning about caring for babies, children, young people and their families and carers, and a useful reference for experienced nurses working with children and young people.
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