Description
Book SynopsisNursing children and young people is increasingly complex requiring nurses to apply their knowledge and skills to a wide scope of illnesses and situations. The challenges to nurses to analyse, reflect on different perspectives and then adapt practices to the benefit of service users are reflected in this book.
Each scenario in this text is created based on real life cases and practice. The 23 cases connect knowledge with practice and guide you through the anatomy and physiology and the physical and psychological responses to stressors, which are then linked to intervention decisions. Cases include:
â Providing care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions
â Acutely ill children including those with asthma, and an infant with pyrexia and febrile convulsions
â Long term conditions including diabetes, renal disease and the transfer to adult services
â Those who are critically ill such as a child with typhoid fever and a
Table of Contents
Part I - Promoting health
CASE 1 A 5 year old girl who is clinically obese
CASE 2 A 7 year old boy who appears to be neglected
CASE 3 A 14 year old girl admitted to hospital after trying alcohol
PART 2 - Acutely ill children
CASE 1 An infant with pyrexia and febrile convulsions resulting from an unknown infection
CASE 2 Emergency admission with brittle asthma
CASE 3 Emergency surgery for appendicitis
PART 3 - Critically ill child
CASE 1 Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) in a neonate
CASE 2 A two year old toddler who has sustained a head injury
CASE 3 A child with a suspected diagnosis of typhoid fever following recent foreign travel
CASE 4 Planned elective surgery for congenital spinal disorder: post-surgical care
PART 4 - Trauma
CASE 1 Car accident, mother killed
CASE 2 An 11 year old child with learning disability who steps into scalding bath water and partly submerges his feet, lower legs and buttocks
CASE 3 Knife assault
PART 5 - Long-term conditions
CASE 1 Neonatal Prematurity
CASE 2 A child with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus who is in transition from primary to secondary school
CASE 3 A baby with short gut, referred to tertiary services following presentation with failure to thrive
CASE 4 A teenager with chronic renal disease awaiting transfer from paediatric services to adult services
PART 6 - Emotional and mental health
CASE 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder
CASE 2 A teenage girl with anorexia
CASE 3 Sickle Cell Disease
PART 7 - Life-limiting conditions and palliative care
CASE 1 Deterioration of mobility in a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
CASE 2 Osteosarcoma in a teenager who develops secondaries
CASE 3 Transition to adult services: Cystic Fibrosis
