Child-Centred Nursing: Promoting Critical Thinking - Softcover

Carter, Bernie; Bray, Lucy; Dickinson, Annette; Edwards, Maria; Ford, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446248607 ISBN 13: 9781446248607

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Bernie Carter is Professor of Children’s Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. She is a Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in recognition of her contributions to the field of children’s pain.

Bernie’s research and writing focuses on children’s pain experiences and the assessment of children’s pain. She is particularly interested in improving the lives of children with complex health care needs and life limiting/threatening illness. Bernie′s research work draws particularly on narrative and appreciative inquiry and on arts-based methods as a means of engaging with children and eliciting stories of their experiences, hopes, beliefs and concerns. Bernie believes that stories are at the heart of the connections we make with children, families and their experiences of pain.

Lucy Bray is a Reader at Edge Hill University and Alder Hey Children′s NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

Annette Dickinson is a Senior Lecturer at AUT University, New Zealand.

Maria Edwards is a Research Sister at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

Karen Ford is an Assistant Director of Nursing at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia.

From the Back Cover

"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." - Mel Webb, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bedfordshire University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1446248607
• ISBN 13: 9781446248607
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192