Fundamentals of Children's Applied Pathophysiology (eBook)

An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students

Elizabeth Gormley-Fleming, Ian Peate (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-23267-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Fundamentals of Children's Applied Pathophysiology introduces nursing and healthcare students to the pathophysiology of the child, and offers an applied full-colour visual approach throughout. Explaining the anatomy of the human body, and the effects of disease or illness on normal physiology, it enables the reader to develop the understanding, knowledge, and skills required to know how to respond and provide safe and effective high-quality care to children and their families.

Key features:

• Written by an experienced author team
• Filled with superb full-colour illustrations
• Packed with learning features, including key words, test-your-knowledge, exercises, further reading, and learning outcomes
• Includes case studies to help readers understand how to apply the knowledge in clinical practice
• Contains links to clinical observations, vital signs to look out for, investigations boxes, red flags to indicate essential information to be aware of when providing care, and medication alerts

Fundamentals of Children's Applied Pathophysiology is an ideal book for pre-registration nursing students, including child and adult nurses, as well as for all healthcare professionals who come into contact with children and their families.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ELIZABETH GORMLEY-FLEMING is Head of Department for Nursing (Children's, Learning Disability and Mental Health) and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

IAN PEATE OBE FRCN is Visiting Professor of Nursing, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing, and Head of School, School of Health Studies, Gibraltar.

Inhalt

List of contributors vii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

About the companion website xvii

How to use your textbook xix

Chapter 1 The cell and body tissue 1
Peter S. Vickers

Chapter 2 Genetics 27
Peter S. Vickers

Chapter 3 Cancer 51
Tanya Urquhart-Kelly

Chapter 4 Homeostasis 67
Mary Brady

Chapter 5 Inflammation, immune response and healing 83
Alison Mosenthal

Chapter 6 Shock 115
Usha Chandran

Chapter 7 Pain and pain management 133
Helen Monks, Kate Heaton-Morley and Sarah McDonald

Chapter 8 Disorders of the nervous system 159
Petra Brown

Chapter 9 Disorders of the cardiac system 179
Sheila Roberts

Chapter 10 Disorders of the respiratory system 213
Elizabeth Mills, Rosemary Court and Susan Fidment

Chapter 11 Disorders of the endocrine system 233
Julia Petty

Chapter 12 Disorders of the digestive system 257
Ann L. Bevan

Chapter 13 Disorders of the renal system 279
Cathy Poole

Chapter 14 Disorders of the reproductive systems 311
Michele O'Grady

Chapter 15 Disorders of the musculoskeletal system 335
Liz Gormley-Fleming

Chapter 16 Disorders of the skin 359
Liz Gormley-Fleming

Index 383

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List of contributors

Ann L. Bevan RN, RSCN, PhD, MSc, FHEA, PGCED
Senior Lecturer, Children’s and Young People’s Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Science, Bournemouth University, UK
Ann is senior lecturer in the Children’s and Young People’s nursing programme in the Faculty of Health and Social Science at Bournemouth University. She has been a registered nurse for nearly 40 years, has qualifications in adult nursing, midwifery and children’s nursing, and is a qualified teacher. Ann has nursed in many areas in the UK and also in Hong Kong. She returned to the UK in January 2010 after nursing and teaching for 16 years in Canada. Research interests are children’s nutrition and childhood obesity, and also all aspects of child health. Her primary research methodology is action research.

Mary Brady RN, RSCN, CHSM, BSc, PGCHE, MSc, SHEA
Senior Lecturer, Child Field Cohort Lead, Exams and Assessment Tutor, Kingston University, UK
Mary is a senior lecturer and field lead for children’s nursing at Kingston University. She has a lengthy and extensive knowledge of the clinical care required for children in a variety of settings (neonatal units, paediatric intensive care and general paediatric wards). She has held posts as sister in neonatal/infant surgery, a neonatal unit and a general children’s ward. Since 2004, she has been teaching pre‐ and post‐registration nurses, midwives and paramedics. In 2016, she took on the role of Exams and Assessment Tutor for the School of Nursing. Mary is also an external examiner at Huddersfield University.
In January 2015, she joined the RCN Children and Young People’s Professional Issues Forum and has contributed to RCN various publications.
Mary is interested in all aspects of children’s nursing and more recently has researched the preparation of first‐year student child nurses for their first clinical practice placements.

Petra Brown RGN, DP, SN, BSc (Hons), MA
Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK
Petra began her nursing a career in 1988 at Salisbury School of Nursing, becoming a staff nurse. She has worked in a variety of clinical areas including recovery, telephone triage, intensive and coronary care. On completion of her degree in critical care, Petra started her career in nurse education as a practice educator for critical care, A & E and orthopaedics. On completion of a Master’s degree in health and social care practice education, she was appointed as a lecturer at Bournemouth University on the overseas and pre‐registration nursing courses. Her key areas of interest are nursing practice, anatomy and physiology, nurse education, practice development, respiratory and critical care.

Usha Chandran RN (Mental Health, Adult, Child), PGCEA, MSc Critical Care Nursing (Adults), MSc Health and Disease
Lecturer/Practitioner Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), St George’s Hospital, Tooting, UK
Senior Lecturer, Child Health, Kingston University, UK
Usha trained as a mental health, adult and children’s nurse, specialising in postnatal mental health disorders and eating disorders in mental health and intensive and critical care nursing in adult and children’s nursing.
Usha has extensive experience both as an expert clinical nurse, nurse manager and nurse lecturer. She managed a mother and baby mental health unit and functioned as a practice development nurse for a nurse‐led eating disorder clinic (anorexia nervosa) at Springfield University Hospitals, Tooting, UK. Usha facilitated workshops at eating disorder nursing conferences delivered training as a nurse teacher for mental health nursing.
Usha is an expert intensive and critical care nurse with expertise in adult and children’s critical care nursing and enjoys teaching this subject very much and helping new and novice nurses develop in this area of care. Her main specialities are in applied physiology and intensive care management and interventions. She worked in a combined cardiac and general adult intensive care unit in Melbourne, Australia for a period of eight months and presented a poster on sedation scales – the next generation at the British Association of Critical Care Nursing in York, UK. Usha is particularly interested in simulation training.
Usha is the lead nurse for children’s critical care nurse training and development at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London, UK, the nursing PI for a multi‐centre trial on sedation and weaning in children (SANDWICH) trial and the module leader for the PICU course modules at the joint faculty: Kingston University & St George’s, University of London.

Rosemary Court RGN, RSCN, RNT, BSc (Hons), MSc, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Rosemary began her nursing career in 1986 at Sheffield School of Nursing, becoming a registered general nurse and a registered sick children’s nurse working in a neonatal intensive care unit. She completed a course in special and intensive care of newborns and worked as a neonatal sister for 13 years. Rosemary went on to work in the community, becoming a community specialist practitioner children’s nurse and a nurse independent prescriber. She worked within a children’s complex care team for 5 years before taking up a position in nurse education. In 2012, Rosemary joined Sheffield Hallam University as a senior lecturer in children’s nursing, where she teaches on both pre‐ and post‐registration nursing courses. Her key areas of interest are children’s critical care nursing, children’s respiratory nursing, public health, advancing practice, and nurse education.

Susan Fidment RGN, RSCN, RNT, BSc, MSc, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Sue began her general nursing career in 1987 at Leeds General Infirmary. After she qualified as an RGN, she spent a brief period working in care of the elderly at Leicester General Hospital, before moving back to Leeds to commence a career in children’s nursing. She has worked in children’s orthopaedics and plastics at St James’s Hospital, moved on to commence RSCN education and then worked at Killingbeck Hospital in children’s cardiology. In 2012, after 16 years working within paediatric critical care both clinically and in education, she became a full‐time lecturer. Sue has a specialist interest in critical care of the child and teaches on advanced paediatric life support programmes. She is particularly interested in using simulation as a teaching methodology.

Liz Gormley‐Fleming RGN, RSCN, RNT, PGCert (Herts), PGDip HE (Herts), BSc (Hons), MA (Keele), SFHEA
Associate Director of Academic Quality Assurance, Centre for Academic Quality Assurance, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Liz commenced her nursing career in Ireland where she qualified as an RGN and RSCN. Initially working in paediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant, Liz moved to London and has held a variety of senior clinical nursing and leadership roles across a range of NHS Trusts both in the acute care setting and in the community. Liz has worked in education since 2001, initially as a clinical facilitator before moving into full‐time higher education in 2003.
Liz has held a number of senior leadership positions in higher education: Head of Nursing (Children’s, Learning Disability, Mental Health), Social Work Associate Dean of School, and Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching. Her areas of interest are care of the acutely ill child, healthcare law and ethics, the use of technology in higher education, curriculum development, and work‐based learning.

Kate Heaton‐Morley RNMH, RGN, RSCN, BSc (Hons), RNT, MSc, FHEA
Senior Lecturer Children’s Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Kate’s career began in 1982 undertaking RNMH training (now RNLD) at Whittington Hall Hospital, Chesterfield. Subsequently training as a RGN and RSCN, Kate’s practice since 1991 has been dedicated to children’s nursing. She has worked and trained in the Sheffield Hospitals as a staff nurse, then sister, in acute and A & E settings. In 1998, Kate took up a senior sister post at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and, successively, positions of practice development advisor, matron, and senior matron. In 2007, to pursue her interest in nurse education, Kate joined Sheffield Hallam University as a senior lecturer in children’s nursing. She maintains her clinical skills and passion for children’s nursing through working as a staff nurse on the acute paediatric ward at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Sarah McDonald RSCN, BA (Hons), PGCert, RNT, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Sarah completed her RSCN Honours degree at Sheffield Hallam University in 1995. She consolidated her degree as a staff nurse in acute medicine at Rotherham District General Hospital. This was followed by positions as staff nurse then senior staff nurse at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in trauma, orthopaedics and plastics. Her other positions include sister in outpatient theatre at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital and senior staff nurse in post‐anaesthetic care. Sarah became a clinical nurse educator at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in 2012. In 2014, she commenced a secondment as a lecturer in children’s...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Kinderkrankenpflege
• Schlagworte: applied pathophysiology • applied pathoshysiology • child anatomy • child care • child-centered pathophysiology • Child Development • child maturation • child nurses • Child nursing • child pathophysiology • child physiology • children’s anatomy • children’s growth • children’s health • children’s physiology • Einführungen in die Krankenpflege • fundamentals of children's anatomy • Health Care for Children • Introductions to Nursing • Kinderkrankenpflege • Krankenpflege • Krankenpflege in der Pädiatrie u. Neonatologie • <i>Fundamentals of Children's Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students</i></p> • <p>pathophysiology of children • Medical Science • Medizin • nursing • Nursing Children & Young People • Pathologie • Pathology • Pathophysiologie • pathophysiology • the developing child • the effects of disease on child physiology • the effects of illness on child physiology
• ISBN-10: 1-119-23267-8 / 1119232678
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-23267-4 / 9781119232674