Nursing Care of Children

Part 1 Introduction to paediatric nursing. Part 2 Growth and development - the child and the family: overview of growth and development; the newborn; the infant; the toddler; the preschool child; the school-age child; the adolescent. Part 3 Special considerations in caring for children: the child and play; communicating with children; physical assessment; nutrition; safety; emergency care of the child; the child in hospital and other care settings; family-centred nursing care of the child; the child with a chronic condition or terminal illness; adapting nursing procedures to children; medicating infants and children; the child in pain. Part 4 Caring for children with health problems: the high risk neonate; the child with and infectious diseases; the child with immunological alterations; the child with fluid and electrolyte alterations; the child with upper gastronintestinal alterations; the child with lower gastrointestinal alterations; the child with genitourinary alterations; the child with acute respiratory alterations; the child with chronic respiratory alterations; the child with congenital cardiac defects; the child with cardiovascular alterations; the child with haematologic alterations; the child with cancer; the child with integumentary alterations; the child with burns; the child with musculoskeletal alterations; the child with structural disorders of the joints and bones; the child with endocrine alterations; the child with diabetes mellitus; the child with neurological/developmental alterations; the child with a psychological disorder; the child with a cognitive deficit; the child with sensory alterations. Appendices: recommended childhood immunization schedule - US, Jan-June 1996; recommendations for preventative paediatric health care - committee on practice and ambulatory medicine; growth charts; Denver developmental screening test; normal blood pressure readings for children; skinfold thickness by age and sex; guidelines for isolation precautions in hospitals; resources for health care providers and families; common laboratory tests and normal values; NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis.