Child-Centred Nursing
Promoting Critical Thinking
- Bernie Carter - University of Central Lancashire, UK
- Lucy Bray - Edge Hill University, UK
- Annette Dickinson - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Maria Edwards - Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Karen Ford - Royal Hobart Hospital Australia
Child-Centred Nursing presents a unique approach by bringing children to the fore of the discussion about their health and health care. It encourages you to think critically about children, their families and contemporary practice issues. It promotes reflection on how you can develop innovative practice so as to improve children’s health outcomes and their experiences of health care.
Clinical case studies and critical thinking exercises are included in each chapter, creating and sustaining a clear link between professional practice, research and theory.
The book is essential reading for all pre-registration and post-graduate students studying children’s and young people’s health care.
Really good for a general overview
This book provides a great introduction to the fundamental principles of paediatric nursing designed in a language that is easy for all to follow. Having reviewed the topic areas within the contents this book sits perfectly within the core foundations module for child health nursing students at Plymouth University.
This is an excellent and informative text for Child Health Nursing students. It has interesting case studies that cover care issues as well as considering the use of audit. The book looks at children's nursing worldwide and is not just UK based.
Good key text
Another informative text which again strongly advocates the necessity for children and young people to be listened to whiolst being central to the decision making of Health and Social care issues that impact on them.
I feel that this text is a useful and accurate dissemination of how to affectively build a theapeutic relationship with a child. The chapters are laid out in a logical way and the material discussed is current and relavent. The case studies and opportunities offered to engage in reflection will make this text valuable to all students. I intend to recommend the text for child centred and shared modules.
This will be an excellent, informative text for Child Health Nursing students
This is an important addition to the literature that really encourages students to think about the child's experience of health provision.
