Child Health Nursing: Nursing Process Approach

The whole book is updated and some of the topics such as Nursing Process for Normal Newborn and Family to Adolescent, Hospitalized Child, Genetic Disorders, Neoplastic Disorders, Communicable Diseases and Mental Disorders (including Behavioral Disorders) are included. Practice questions are given at the end of each chapter which will help the students to evaluate their understanding of the matter and ability to recall the information. This textbook is going to be a valuable companion to all nursing students and personnel.

Key Features :

• Contains 23 chapters as per the Revised Nursing Syllabus.
• Each disease condition that is discussed in the chapters has an introduction.
• Contains diagrammatically illustrated pathophysiology with causative factors, symptoms, and complications.
• Essential nursing diagnoses and their related risk factors used by specific nursing diagnoses are included in the nursing process, along with defining characteristics related to the condition that are taken from the body system. The format of the defining characteristics is the same as that of the essential nursing diagnoses and nursing processes.
• The nursing diagnoses are based on North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) taxonomy.
• The nursing process chapters are elaborated as per the components of the nursing process and the application of nursing theories has been added.
• The whole book is updated and some of the topics added are Nursing Process for Normal Newborn and Family to Adolescent, Hospitalized Child, Genetic Disorders, Neoplastic Disorders, and Communicable Diseases and Mental Disorders (including Behavioral Disorders).
• Practice questions given at the end of each chapter will help the students to evaluate their understanding of the matter and ability to recall the information.
• The practitioners will find these plans to be flexible enough to accomplish interrelationship among the nursing diagnoses and their related care options.
• Serves as a reference manual for the practicing nurses.
• Nursing educators will find it easy to teach their students and prepare them for the examinations.
• This book will also bring a uniform standard of nursing education in India.