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This convenient handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evaluation
and treatment of more than 80 signs and symptoms. It is organized
alphabetically, and each entry includes history and physical
examinations; causes; differential diagnosis; diagnostic
procedures; treatment approaches including when to refer and when
to admit; ongoing care and follow-up; and prevention. Contents
include: Abdominal pain Back pain Chest pain Diarrhea and
steatorrhea Dizziness and vertigo Fatigue and weakness Fever
Headache Heart murmurs Jaundice Rash Red eye/pink eye Sleep
disturbances Speech and language concerns Vomiting Wheezing And
more!
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, and academic research to
portray the lives of parent caregivers, looking at both the trials
and the triumphs inherent in raising a child with special needs.
Parents raising children with special needs often must devote all
of their resources, both tangible and spiritual, to providing care
long into their offspring's lives. Their experience exceeds the
usual parameters of parenting. This book examines all of the facets
of their parenting role, the care they provide, challenges they
face, and questions many assumptions. It presents parents as
neither emotional wrecks nor overburdened saints, but as moral
individuals struggling to find their own way through relatively
unexplored territory. This book begins to recognize the moral
consequences of providing long-term care for a child with complex
needs. Using a virtue ethic framework isolates the various tasks
involved, and evaluates the moral demands placed on the parent
attempting to perform them. On their journey to provide for their
child the best life possible, parents must alter their own lives
and attitudes, and become the sort of person who can perform the
necessary caregiving. Raising a child with special needs demands
from the parent a reassessment of their personal and social lives.
Some of the consequences, such as the presumed emotional and
physical burden of constant attentiveness and the numerous
unexpected responsibilities, have been reported previously. But the
need for competence, which drives an acquisition of medical
knowledge, has not previously been analyzed, nor has there been
recognition of the enormous moral task of encouraging identity
formation in a child with intellectual delays or disabilities. For
a child who cannot attain independence, parents must continue to
provide care and support into an uncertain future.
The outcome for children with cancer has shown enormous improvement
since the first edition of this book was published in 1975. In
economically privileged countries, overall survival rates have now
reached 80% at five years from diagnosis, and most of these young
people will become long term survivors. The Oxford Textbook of
Cancer in Children offers state-of-the-art descriptions of the
approach needed for the optimal management of children with cancer,
and guidance on current treatments available due to the advances
made over the past decade. This seventh edition has been thoroughly
revised and updated, including brand new chapters on cancer
immunotherapy in children, and cancer in adolescents and young
adults, plus expanded treatment of tumours of the brain and central
nervous system. The book primarily provides clear and up-to-date
clinical guidance for use in treatment settings whilst offering a
useful background to the biology of individual tumour types and the
history of the development of specific treatments. With an
international and multi-disciplined authorship comprising of
paediatric oncologists, surgeons, radiotherapists, imaging
specialists, psychologists, nurses, and many others, the text
illustrates how the paediatric oncology community works globally
and collaboratively in order to drive forward new therapies, build
our knowledge of these diseases, and achieve the common aim of
curing childhood cancer. In this new edition, Professors Biondi and
Caron have been joined by Professor Francois Doz, who has a
distinguished international reputation, particularly in the
treatment of childhood brain tumours and retinoblastoma, as well as
early drug development. They have also been joined by Professor Tom
Boterberg, a world renowned radio-oncologist for children with
cancer. This book will be of value to paediatric oncologists,
trainee paediatric oncologists, paediatric haematologists, and
other professionals working in paediatric oncology: nurses, AHPs,
surgeons, and clinical oncologists.
Brain injuries are common in children, typically following head
trauma but also complicating meningitis, encephalitis,
cerebrovascular haemorrhage (stroke) and brain tumours. Many
children suffer irreversible impairments and are left with major
physical, educational and behavioural disabilities. This has
tremendous implications for health, education and social services.
The survivors of brain injuries pose a significant burden on the
NHS, the community and families. Despite this, resources are
limited or non-existent in many parts of the UK and, consequently,
many hospitals, schools and education authorities, and social
services are unsure how to address the many problems shown by these
children and their families. The new edition of 'Management of
Brain Injured Children' provides a detailed account of brain
injuries in children. It considers how common they are, why they
occur, and how they may be prevented. It also explains how children
are resuscitated following the acute insult, and provides a
comprehensive description of how the physical, communicative,
educational, and behavioural effects are managed, in both the
short- and long-term, and how this impacts on the family. A
parent's experience of having a child who suffered a severe head
injury provides an invaluable contribution, as does the account of
her daughter, now a teenager. The book concludes with appendices
detailing useful support organisations and relevant governmental
and other agencies' publications. Referencing is thorough and
up-to-date, providing readers with useful sources of information
for additional reading.
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 paramount. This second edition has
been fully updated to reflect new guidelines and approaches which
have impacted emergency nursing in recent years. This handbook
provides clear, focussed information that will aid all areas of
patient assessment and management in emergency care. The concise
format will enable the reader to quickly locate the information
needed and provides alerts regarding critical 'must-dos' for ill
adults and children. The skills section provides a quick summary of
the many clinical skills needed in emergency care, ideal as an
introduction for the uninitiated and as a refresher for skills
performed infrequently. Additionally, this second edition has been
expanded to cover nursing in major trauma and emergencies in the
elderly. This handbook will empower nurses to deliver excellence in
emergency care. Written by practising nurses and subject experts,
the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing is a unique and invaluable
companion for qualified and student nurses, and to all health care
professionals working in the emergency care setting.
* Measure your knowledge and skills of deduction across clinical
medicine * Make learning and revision easy and fun, and practice
for your exams. In our new Key Questions Answered series,
Paediatrics KQA has been to help the clinical medicine student
learn and revise their paediatrics. Designed to be used on its own
for revision and additional learning, this book can also be used to
complement the Paediatrics: Understanding Child Health (An Oxford
Core Text). Taking an integrative approach, this book covers the
undergraduate medical curriculum and the Diploma of Child Health,
giving a broad base of questions both knowledge based and
data-interpretive and reasoning, and has full answers which contain
additional learning points. There are more than 200 key questions
testing both knowledge, data interpretation and reasoning skills.
It also includes a section on how to approach MCQs: For example;
commonly this means something is often encountered or its
association is not a surprise. Rarely here the association is
well-recognised but uncommon.
Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking
clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the
physical and developmental age of their patients. The Oxford
Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children's and Young People's
Nursing is a practical guide to both the most basic and the
increasingly complex elements of caring for the health needs of
children and young people. Focusing on the key principles
underpinning all elements of care, it provides a solid,
evidence-based framework which practitioners can use to develop
their clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes. It systematically
covers the body systems and the clinical skills relating to them,
and includes additional tips and suggested courses of action when
encountering difficulties with a procedure, with practical advice
from current practitioners. Written by experienced children's
nurses working either within clinical paediatric settings or as
educators in the field, this handbook is an essential, quick, and
reliable practice reference tool for any clinical setting.
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a
classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and
protection field which summarises important current thinking on
child development and applies it directly to practice. The book
covers key issues such as resilience and vulnerability and the
impact of protective or adverse environments. Different stages of
development (infancy, school age and adolescence) are discussed,
and attachment theory is used to offer insights into the impact of
abuse and neglect on development. A key feature is the inclusion of
case studies and activities to allow the reader to improve their
understanding and reflect on good practice. This second edition is
fully updated to reflect the new policy context and
multi-disciplinary practice, and contains updated practice examples
to take into account contemporary issues affecting children and
young people. This book encourages practitioners to consider each
child as an individual with unique circumstances, and links theory
and practice in an imaginative and sympathetic way. It will be
essential reading for all child care and protection workers.
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
Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (PAG) is a subspecialty that
encompasses a broad spectrum of conditions affecting girls from
birth up to adulthood. For younger children, vulval dermatological
conditions are frequently seen, whilst the adolescent population
will often present with menstrual dysfunction or pelvic pain, with
a range of aetiologies. This book, aimed at trainees and
consultants in the field and all healthcare professionals working
in the multidisciplinary team providing care for girls with
gynaecological conditions, offers practical, detailed advice on
dealing with this spectrum: including rarer conditions such as
disorders of puberty, including precocious puberty, delayed puberty
and primary amenorrhoea, differences in sex development and
Mullerian duct anomalies. Written by international experts in the
field, this book will inform and inspire generations of healthcare
professionals working in PAG.
Multiple pregnancies are associated with higher risks for both
mother and babies. Women with multiple pregnancies have an
increased risk of miscarriage, anemia, hypertensive disorders,
haemorrhage, and postnatal illness. These pregnancies are more
likely to need an operative delivery, and maternal mortality is
generally 2.5 times that of singleton births. Fetuses are at
increased risk for anatomic and genetic anomalies, growth
abnormalities, prematurity, and several physiological problems
related to monochorionicity. This book provides a much needed,
up-to-date guide to the management of multiple pregnancies.
Presented with a uniform approach to all chapters, information is
easily navigable, evidence-based, and highly practical. Heavily
illustrated, particularly with ultrasound images - the cornerstone
of management of multiple pregnancies - this book will appeal to
obstetricians and specialists in maternal-fetal medicine, midwives
and ultrasonographers and will improve outcomes for mothers and
babies.
Written for novice neonatal nurses and those new to the NICU, this
concise, easy-to-use resource delivers all the essentials of daily
practice for the care of neonates and their families. Families
experience dramatic transformations as roles develop and change
during the newborn period. Throughout it all, they rely on the
nurse's expertise, support, and encouragement to learn to care for
their child and meet the newborn's most basic needs.Fast Facts for
the Neonatal Nurse, Second Edition begins with a streamlined yet
comprehensive review of normal newborn characteristics. With this
foundation, chapters walk through a variety of common and uncommon
newborn physiological changes to enable the neonatal nurse to
detect any possible complications that warrant additional
assessment. This second edition provides more in-depth content on
high-risk conditions to promote the safest, high-quality care to
the entire neonatal patient population. Grounded in evidence-based
practice, all chapters in this edition have been updated with the
newest neonatal interventions and protocols. New to the Second
Edition: Introduces a new 'High Risk Care' feature specific to the
needs of neonates with conditions that may warrant high risk or
NICU settings Contains THREE new chapters: Introduction to the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Management of Common NICU
Complications Neonatal Ethical Conflicts & Considerations Key
Features: Provides essential information for new neonatal nurses in
concise, consistent, easy-to-use format Contains crucial knowledge
for comprehensive, holistic care for both low-risk and high-risk
neonates and their families in all settings Presents only
evidence-based practice recommendations Includes such features as
Fast Facts Boxes and tables with easy-to-read lab values to
reinforce information
The first volume in the "What Do I Do Now?: Palliative Care"
series, Pediatric Palliative Care uses a case-based palliative care
approach to cover common and important topics in the examination,
investigation, and management of children with serious illness.
Each chapter provides a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to
remember, and selected references for further reading. The book
addresses a wide range of topics, including the goals of care,
symptom management, care for neonatal and adolescent populations,
and the emotional, social, cultural and spiritual needs of ill
children and their families. Written by authors from a variety of
fields such as nursing, chaplaincy, social work, and psychology,
this book is suited for pediatricians, palliative care and hospice
providers, nurses, and allied health practitioners. Pediatric
Palliative Care is an engaging collection of thought-provoking
cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult
patients. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the
reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"
The revised and updated second edition covers practical approaches
to caring for healthy and high-risk infants. The book covers
maternal and fetal health, care of the newborn after delivery,
breastfeeding, follow-up care, common congenital anomalies, the
newborn with a heart murmur or cyanosis, neurologic findings,
primary care issues relating to infants requiring intensive care,
and health and developmental outcomes. More than 40 chapters cover
step-by-step recommendations on what to do, when to admit, and when
to refer. Recommendations and lists detailed references within each
chapter. New in the second edition: 8 new chapters added including:
Prenatal Diagnosis Fetal Interventions Optimizing Nutrition for the
Preterm, Very Low-Birth-Weight Infant After Discharge From Neonatal
Intensive Care Newborn Immunizations and Immune Prophylaxis
Balancing Safe Sleep and Other Newborn Recommendations Vascular
Anomalies Endocrine Disorders Presenting in the Newborn Period
Shared Decision Making Around Home Technologies
The Ultimate Learning Package to Prepare for the CPNP-PC Exam
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide: Primary
Care, Seventh Edition is an essential resource for nurses preparing
for the PNP primary care certification exam offered by the
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB). Completely updated
and revised, it reflects the most current guidelines and standards
of practice for the nurse practitioner in the pediatric primary
care setting. The Seventh Edition features expanded information on
the promotion of breastfeeding in the first year of life, new
content about LGBTQIA issues, and a new chapter providing
comprehensive review of mental health information with sections
covering bullying, learning disabilities, internalizing and
externalizing disorders, eating disorders, and more. Pediatric
Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide: Primary Care,
Seventh Edition provides access to Navigate 2 TestPrep. An access
code is included with every new print copy and unlocks access to
practice and simulated tests, detailed rationales, and powerful
data dashboards. Standalone access to Navigate 2 TestPrep is also
available (ISBN: 978-1-284-19316-9).
Enhance your knowledge of neonatal-perinatal medicine and/or study
for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine board certification or
recertification with this new study guide from the editors of
NeoReviews. This new guide includes more than 1,200 questions
previously published in NeoReviews from January 2007 to December
2017. Each question is followed by a short explanation of the
correct answer with references, including the original article.
Chapters include Cardiology Dermatology Endocrinology ENT and
Ophthalmology Fluids, Electrolytes, Nutrition Gastrointestinal
Genetics and Inborn Errors of Metabolism Hematology/Oncology
Immunology Infectious Diseases Maternal-Fetal Medicine Neonatal
Resuscitation Neurology Renal
Trusted by generations of nursing educators and updated to meet the
needs of today's nursing students, Maternal & Child Health
Nursing, 9th Edition, presents maternal-newborn and child
healthcare not as two separate disciplines, but as a continuum of
knowledge. This proven, approachable text employs a nursing process
framework and combines clear, accessible content with a wide range
of engaging learning aids to help students master essential
concepts and build the skills for success in today's changing
healthcare environment. This extensively revised 9th Edition
reflects the latest evidence-based research, recent changes in
healthcare delivery, and the importance of meeting the culturally
diverse needs of various populations, guiding students to a
practical understanding of emerging approaches while promoting a
sensitive, holistic outlook on nursing practice
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