Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions


Persons
Julia Petty is an adult, paediatric and neonatal nurse who trained and worked as a practice educator at Great Ormond Street hospital before becoming a Senior Lecturer at City University, London, UK. There, she co-led the neonatal nursing education portfolio for 12 years before moving to University of Hertfordshire in 2013. Her current role is Associate Professor (learning and teaching) and Senior Lecturer in Children's nursing.
Lisa Kaiser has been a neonatal nurse in the UK since 2008, having gained her paediatric nursing diploma in Vienna in 2007. During this time, Lisa has developed extensive clinical expertise across Level 1, 2, and 3 neonatal units, including specialist surgical neonatal care. She qualified as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in 2014 and gained her MSc in 2019.
Glenys Boxwell (Connelly) was an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. She was previously a senior lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge and has now retired from clinical practice. Glenys was the editor of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing for the 1st and 2nd editions in 2000 and 20210 respectively, continuing as part of the editing team for the 3rd edition, published in 2020. We are very grateful to Glenys for the original development of this key, widely reputed neonatal nursing care textbook, that has formed the basis of this revised 4th edition.
Content
Introduction, 1. The context and organisation of neonatal care, 2. Antenatal and perinatal aspects of care, 3. Continuing care beyond the neonatal unit, 4. Assessment of the neonate, 5. The premature and low birthweight infant, 6. Nurturing supportive family relationships in neonatal practice, 7. Developmentally focused neonatal care, 8. Management of pain and stress in the neonatal unit, 9. Neonatal Palliative care; recognising uncertainty and enhancing the family experience, 10. Neonatal bereavement care, 11. Legal and ethical issues in neonatal care, 12. Transition to extrauterine life: delivery room and early care practices, 13. Thermal care of the neonate, 14. Management of neonatal respiratory disorders , 15. Management of neonatal cardiovascular disorders. 16. Neonatal brain injury, 17. Management of neonatal haematological disorders, 18. Management of neonatal fluid and electrolyte balance, 19. Nutritional and feeding management in the neonatal unit, 20. Neonatal infection, 21 . Medication practice in the neonatal unit, 22. Neonatal surgical care, 23. Neonatal diagnostic procedures, 25 Final comments and the importance of evidence-based neonatal practice
System requirements
File format: PDF
Copy protection: without DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Use the free software Adobe Reader, Adobe Digital Editions, or any other PDF viewer of your choice (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/Smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or another reading app for eBooks, e.g., PocketBook (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook does not use copy protection or Digital Rights Management.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.