Table of Contents

Part A: Principles of nursing children and young people
Chapter 1: Involving children, young people and families in care and care decisions - Dr Jackie Vasey, Dr Joanna Smith, Nicola Mitchell
Chapter 2: Effective communication with children and young people - Jean Shapcott
Chapter 3: Assessment and management of pain in children - Alison Twycross and Becky Saul
Chapter 4: Medication compliance management and administration - Mary Brady and Linda Moore
Chapter 5: Interprofessional working with children & young people - Debbie McGirr and Scott Richardson-Read
Chapter 6: The organisation of and settings for care - Jane Hughes, Amanda Kelly and Tracey Jones
Chapter 7: Community care and care in non-hospital settings - Sarah Price
Chapter 8: Law and policy - Marc Cornock and Orla Mc Alinden
Chapter 9: Safeguarding - Zoe Clark and Cameron Cox
Part B: Child and infant wellbeing and development
Chapter 10: Genetics and epigenetics - effects on children and young people - Gill Langmack and Lis O’Brien
Chapter 11: Infant mental wellbeing and health or how to grow a healthy adult - Orla Mc Alinden
Chapter 12: Factors influencing wellbeing and development in children and young people - Melanie Robbins and Cilla Sanders
Chapter 13: Universal screening and the role of the Health Visitor - Mandy Brimble and Sarah Reddington-Bowes
Part C: Caring for children with acute health care needs and injury
Chapter 14: Assessment and care of the child with acute needs - Rachael Bolland
Chapter 15: Preparing children and young people for hospitalization - Lorna Ashbrooke and Jim Richardson
Chapter 16: Principles of caring for children in the peri and postoperative recovery period - Dawn James
Chapter 17: Care of the child and young person with respiratory problems - Zoe Veal, Orla Mc Alinden and Doreen Crawford
Chapter 18: Care of the child and young person with cardiovascular problems - Zoe Veal and Jo Bailey
Chapter 19: Care of the child and young person with neurological problems - Stuart Hibbins
Chapter 20: Care of the child and young person with urinary/renal problems - Mary Brady and Linda Moore
Chapter 21: Care of the child and young person with endocrine problems - Kate Davies
Chapter 22: Care of the child and young person with immunological problems - Katie Rowson
Chapter 23: Care of the child and young person with musculoskeletal problems - Julia Judd
Chapter 24: Care of the child and young person with haematological problems - Louise Holliday and Carla Kierulff
Chapter 25: Care of the child and young person with dermatological problems - Joan Myers and Dolores D’Souza
Chapter 26: Care of the child and young person with thermal injury - Shirin Pomeroy
Chapter 27: Care of the child and young person with fluid and electrolyte imbalance - Zoe Veal and Colin Veal
Chapter 28: Care of the child and young person with gastrointestinal problems - Zoe Veal, Orla Mc Alinden and Doreen Crawford
Chapter 29: Discharge planning and transfer - Elizabeth Gillespie and Sue Dunlop
Part D: Caring for children and young people with Complex and high dependency needs
Chapter 30: Care of the highly dependent and critically ill child and young person - Usha Chandra and Fiona Lynch
Chapter 31: Care of the neonate - Elisabeth Podsiadly and Dr Mary Goggin
Chapter 32: Care of the child and young person with a malignant condition - Dr Jayne Price and Suzanne Coulson
Chapter 33: Care of the child and young person with life limiting illness - Antoinette Menezes and Tracie Lewin-Taylor
Chapter 34: Care of the child and young person at the end of life - Professor Jayne Price and Melissa Heywood
Chapter 35: Care of the child and young person with Learning Disability
Chapter 36: Care of the child and young person with mental health issues - Orla Mc Alinden and Julia Pelle
Chapter 37: From childhood to adolescence, focus on the developing and differing needs of a young person - Tim McDougall
Part E: On being a Professional Children’s Nurse
Chapter 38: Leadership and management in child and young people nursing - Jackie Phipps
Chapter 39: Lifelong learning and Continuing Professional Development for the child and young person nurse - Claire Anderson
Chapter 40: Decision making and Accountability in children and young people nursing - Lorraine Highe
Chapter 41: Being politically aware and professionally proactive - Jim Richardson

About the Author

Jayne Price is Professor of Children’s Nursing at Kingston University London. She qualified as a general nurse in 1991 (Belfast) and as a children’s nurse (Leeds) in 1995. Her clinical background within children’s nursing includes a strong focus on oncology and palliative care. Having taught as a Senior Lecturer (Education) at Queen’s University Belfast since 2001, Jayne moved to Kingston/St George’s in 2014. In her current sole, Jayne teaches and facilitates student learning from foundation degree through to PhD level and has received a number of awards for teaching/educational developments. Throughout her career to date Jayne has made stringent efforts to enhance care for children requiring palliative approach and their families, through practice, education and research. She is a Trustee of Martin House Children’s Hospice and is also involved in the work of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices. Jayne has published and presented widely nationally and internationally.

Orla McAlinden has been an adult nurse since 1979 (Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Northern Ireland, working through the period of civil and political turbulence known as ‘the Troubles’) and a children’s nurse since 1986 (Queen Mary’s Hospital Carshalton) and a Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland since 1992. Her clinical background with children includes medical/surgical nursing, education and clinical experience in PICU and NICU (Lewisham & Evelina Children’s Unit at Guy’s Hospital London). Orla’s clinical and professional interests lie in ethical, legal and professional aspects of children’s nursing, with a particular interest in infant mental health, emotional/mental health and wellbeing, complex needs and CAMHs-related issues.

Currently, Orla works in the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland in a Category A Prison, and as a Teaching Assistant at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel for the Nursing Children and Young People’s Journal, a Specialist Advisor with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a Steering Group member for RCN Community & Continuing Care Forum, and a Social Media Moderator for that Forum’s Facebook/Twitter pages. She is a keen participant with the @WeCYPNurses community on Twitter and an advocate for professional social media use.

Reviews

Fantastic evidence-base on the mechanisms of child biology, physiology, assessing children, and all the different childhood illness. They talk about community care, law, policy, and there’s also a section about caring for children with complex or high-needs, or critically ill children.
(Full video review can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wc3cN1fYPg)
*Grace Barry - Registered Nurse and Blogger*

The book features multiple contributors from a variety of clinical, academic and leadership roles as well as viewpoints on many aspects of care from students, parents and most importantly, children. The book signposts the student to consider critical aspects of practice throughout such as ‘safeguarding stop points’, ‘what’s the evidence?’ boxes and links to critical thinking or reflection.

The book is aimed at second and third year children’s nursing students and keeps this audience firmly in focus with reference to a review panel of students. It would also be a good introductory resource for any qualified nurse newly caring for children and young people.
*Alison Taylor, Senior lecturer in Child Health Nursing, University of Brighton*