Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children's and Young People's Nursing

Nursing Times.net, March 2013 This book would be of benefit to all nursing students and nursing staff working with children and young people whether based on general paediatric or specialist paediatric wards or general to intensive care settings.

<br>Paula Dawson trained as a general nurse at the Nightingale School, St. Thomas' Hospital in London, and as a children's nurse at the Nottingham School of Nursing. She has held a range of clinical, managerial, practice development, and educational roles both in the UK and overseas in a career spanning over 25 years. She is committed to the pursuit of excellent, person-centred, and evidence-based care with a focus on the unique and essential role of the nurse in the multi-disciplinary team. <br>In 1996 Louise Cook attained her first degree in Psychology and Sociology (BA Honours) from the University of Leeds before going on to train as a children's nurse at the University of Nottingham. Having qualified as a Registered Nurse (RN - Child) in 2000 she worked for 7 years within acute hospital trusts in Nottingham. For approximately 5 years she ran the only post-registration course for the care of children with cleft lip and/ or palate in the country. In February 2007 Louise joined the University of Nottingham as a full time lecturer in Child Health. She lectures on a wide range of topics including her specialist interest topics of cleft and wound care. In addition to this she is heavily involved in the teaching of evidence-based clinical skills to undergraduate students on both the BSC degree programme and the undergraduate Masters in Nursing Science (MNurSci) programme - currently the only course of its kind in the country. <br>Laura-Jane Holliday is a Practitioner Health Lecturer in children's nursing at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham. She is also a preceptorship development nurse, working within the practice development team for the Children's Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Additionally she continues to work clinically on a children's medical ward, specializing in respiratory care. Her previous clinical experience includes children's medical, neuro-medicine, and cardiology. Her practice and academic interests encompass reducing the theory-practice gap, progressing and teaching of clinical skills, and practice and staff development. <br>Qualifying as a children's nurse in 1998, Helen Saxelby has benefited greatly from her experiences at Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, working in both general and intensive areas. Helen's chosen area of speciality, children's neurosciences, has provided her with a fascinating mix of neurological, neurosurgical, and neuro-oncological expertise. In more recent years as a Practitioner Health Lecturer she has developed her teaching and academic skills, focusing on clinical skills teaching in particular.<br>

1. The principles of patient assessment; 2. The principles applying to clinical skills and procedures; 3. Communication; 4. Assessing the child and young person; 5. Personal hygiene and comfort; 6. Play; 7. Infection control; 8. Drug administration; 9. Intravenous care; 10. Care of the perioperative patient; 11. Emergency and high dependency; 12. Respiratory system; 13. Cardiovascular system; 14. Neurological system; 15. Gastrointestinal system; 16. Genitourinary system; 17. Musculoskeletal system; 18. Wound care; 19. Ear, nose, and throat system; 20. Ophthalmology; 21. Dermatology; 22. Endocrinology; 23. Haematology and immune system