The Medically Complex Child

Part 1 Introduction: medical technology - implications for health care and social service providers, Arthur F. Kohrman; specialized family foster care, Jake Terpstra. Part 2 Medical overview: the medical care of children with complex home health care needs - an overview for caretakers, Paula Kienberger Jaudes; from intensive care unit to home - the role of paediatric transitional care, Mark J. Merkens. Part 3 Discharge planning - the link to the communty: the nurse's role - discharging special needs children to foster care, Susan Sullivan-Bolyai. Part 4 Psychosocial issues: the role of social services in the placement of medically complex children, Ann Holman, et al; accessing the education system for students who require health technology and treatment, Terry Heintz Caldwell and Kathryn Kirkhart. Part 5 Parenting medically complex children: medical foster care - the foster parents' perspective, Lynn Prybyl and Thomas Prybyl; the adoption experience, Judith Geissler and Evan Geissler. Part 6 Innovative models of specialized care: medical foster care for abused and neglected children, J.M. Whitworth and Patricia H. Foster; prescribed paediatric extended care - the family centred health care alternative for medically and technology dependent children, Patricia M. Pierce, et al; the health care-child welfare prtnership - the transition of medically complex children to the community, Neil J. Hochstadt and Diane M. Yost; collaboration for families, Sara Miranda and Jane Quinton; specialized foster care for children with HIV, Phyllis Gurdin and Gary R. Anderson. Part 7 Other critical issues - legal, ethical and funding: legal advocacy for medically complex children in foster care, Mark C. Weber; ethical aspects of paediatric home care, John Lantos and Arthur Kohrman; financing care for medically complex children, Steve A. Freedman and Leslie L. Clarke. Part 8 Outcomes: stress and coping in home care - a study of families, Kathleen E. Murphy. Part 9 Resources: a nationwide directory of resources for medically complex children, Ann Holman, et al.