An "evidence-based" approach to health care is growing in importance, but it is difficult for students and professionals to keep up to date with a vast and changing knowledge base. Even more challenging is the need to apply the evidence to everyday nursing practice. This book helps the reader to do just that. Bringing together a range of contributors, it explores some of the latest research in children's nursing. A particular feature is the application of the findings presented to nursing practice.

'Ambulatory care', the provision of health services on a day service basis, is a growth area. Nowhere is this more evident than in paediatrics where minimising the disruption to the lives of children caused by illness and hospitalisation has been high on the agenda for consumer groups and service providers for two decades.

This book brings together details of some innovations in paediatric ambulatory care, presenting them in a form that is readable, research-based and relevant to practice.

Written and edited by leading pediatric and family nurse researchers, Children and Families in Health and Illness provides a synthesis of the research literature in nursing for health promotion of children, pediatric acute and chronic conditions, and children and families and the health care system. Each of the four sections begins with a historical overview of the literature. The first three sections present reviews of assessment and intervention models and implications for practice, education, and research for their respective topics. The concluding section examines community infrastructures and issues in health services research. Children and Families in Health and Illness will prove an excellent shelf reference for researchers, graduate students and faculty, and a thought-provoking read for advanced-level practitioner nurses in child or family nursing.

This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent changes in how the family and society care for children. The book follows a health to ill health continuum in the care of the child and his family. Current trends in treatment of children's disease and related policies are clearly explained and there is more information included dealing with child abuse. The book also reinforces the importance of appropriate application of nursing models in structuring care plans and the nursing process. Two specific models of nursing care, Roper et al and Orem, are included in this new edition. Each of the numerous care plans in the text now also include a complete section on evaluation and its importance in the nursing process.

The ASQ (R):SE-2 questionnaires are the most cost-effective, reliable way to screen young children for social-emotional issues in the first 6 years of life. These 9 age-appropriate questionnaires in French (2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months) effectively screen 7 key social-emotional areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. Fast and easy to use, ASQ (R):SE-2 questionnaires take just 10-15 minutes for parents to complete. ASQ (R):SE-2 French Questionnaires are provided as printable PDF master copies on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also includes French translations of the What is ASQ (R):SE-2? parent handout, parent conference sheet, and child monitoring sheet. Please note: each physical site must own an original ASQ (R):SE-2 User's Guide (in English), in addition to this questionnaires CD.

The ASQ (R):SE-2 Quick Start Guide is a convenient, at-a-glance guide that keeps ASQ (R):SE-2 scoring and administration basics right at the fingertips. Perfect for busy French-speaking professionals on the go, this Quick Start Guide is laminated, lightweight, and so cost-effective that every professional in a program can have one (it's sold in a package of 5). ASQ (R):SE-2 users will turn to the Quick Start Guide for clear, simple directions on selecting the correct questionnaire, scoring ASQ (R):SE-2, and communicating results to parents. This product is sold in a package of 5.

Child-Centred Nursing presents a unique approach by bringing children to the fore of the discussion about their health and health care. It encourages you to think critically about children, their families and contemporary practice issues. It promotes reflection on how you can develop innovative practice so as to improve children's health outcomes and their experiences of health care.

Clinical case studies and critical thinking exercises are included in each chapter, creating and sustaining a clear link between professional practice, research and theory. The book is essential reading for all pre-registration and post-graduate students studying children's and young people's health care.

The definitive book on family centred care for health professionals, this popular text has been thoroughly revised in line with contemporary health policy. Including greater emphasis on child-centred care, interprofessional working and care in community settings; it is a valuable resource for all those working with children and families.

"Children's and Young People's Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!" is a handy reference book in the award-winning 'Incredibly Easy!' style-perfect for those entering or needing a refresher in children's nursing, a core subject for nurses. The particular conditions, skills, and practice of sick children's nursing are a common component of nurse training, and the curricula for sick children's nursing courses include a heavy emphasis on family-centred care, health promotion and communication skills. This book organizes developmental concerns and childhood disorders in an intuitive way, while weaving a family-centred approach to practice throughout the material. Taking a developmental approach, the latest information on more than 100 paediatric disorders is included, highlighting collaborative management opportunities that identify appropriate involvement of other health care team members, so vital in clinical practice today. This informative text assists the nurse in dealing with situations unique to children's care: psychosocial structures of families, common milestones in development, childhood hospitalizations and terminal illnesses, and dosage calculations and techniques for administering medications to children. "Children's and Young People's Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!" is for all degree and diploma nursing students.

Le lecteur trouvera dans ce guide une gamme complete de normes et criteres actualises et reposant sur des bases factuelles pour permettre aux professionnels de sante de dispenser, pendant la grossesse, l' accouchement et le postpartum, des soins de qualite qui prennent en compte les besoins de la mere et de son enfant nouveau-ne.Toutes les recommandations sont destinees a des prestataires qualifies au niveau primaire des soins de sante, qu ils travaillent dans un etablissement ou dans la communaute. Elles s'appliquent d une part a toutes les femmes se presentant aux consultations prenatales, a l'accouchement, pendant le postpartum, apres un avortement ou pour des soins d urgence et, d autre part, a tous les nouveau-nes, a la naissance et pendant la premiere semaine de vie (et au-dela), pour les soins de routine ou d urgence. Cet ouvrage est un guide pour la prise de decision clinique. Il facilite la collecte, l'analyse, la classification et l'utilisation des informations pertinentes en suggerant les questions cruciales, les observations et/ou les examens essentiels et en recommandant les interventions qui conviennent en se basant sur la recherche. Il favorise la detection precoce des complications et la mise en route rapide du traitement adapte avec, si necessaire, l'orientation sans delai des patients vers les structures appropriees.L'utilisation correcte de ce guide devrait permettre de faire baisser les taux eleves de mortalite et de morbidite maternelles et perinatales qui prevalent dans de nombreux pays en developpement et de rendre la grossesse et l'accouchement plus surs.