Evidence-based Child Health Care Challenges for Practice [Paperback]

An 'evidence-based' approach to health care is growing in importance, but it is difficult for students and professionals to keep up-to-date with a vast and changing knowledge base. Even more challenging is the need to apply the evidence to everyday nursing practice.
This book helps the reader to do just that. Bringing together a range of contributors, it explores some of the latest research in children's nursing. A particular feature is the application of the findings presented to nursing practice.An 'evidence-based' approach to health care is growing in importance, but it is difficult for students and professionals to keep up-to-date with a vast and changing knowledge base. Even more challenging is the need to apply the evidence to everyday nursing practice.
This book helps the reader to do just that. Bringing together a range of contributors, it explores some of the latest research in children's nursing. A particular feature is the application of the findings presented to nursing practice.Introduction: Challenging Issues Facing Children's Nurses in their Quest to Deliver Evidence-Based Practice; E.A.Glasper & L.Ireland.- Evidence-Based Clinical Nursing Practice: Providing the Evidence; T.Long.- The Legacy of a Paediatric Nursing Degree Course; A.Dearmun .- The Role of Professional Journals in Promoting Evidence-Based Care; A.Casey.- Parental Participation in the Care of Hospitalised Children: A Review of the Evidence; P.Callery & E.Savage.- Being a Mother of a Critically Sick Child: Issues for Nursing Practice and Research; J.Noyes.- Children's Voices in Health Care Planning; E.Elliott & A.Watson.- The Surveillance of Childhood Accidents: Providing the Evidence for Accident Prevention; L.King.- Children's Knowledge of their Internal Anatomy; C.Gaudion.- Can Information Leaflets Assist Parents in Preparing Children for Hospital Admission?; K.Stone.- Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health: Enhancing Professional Knowledge and Skills; R.SmitlÓe