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Nursing care of the pediatric neurosurgery patient and family can be extremely challenging and extraordinarily rewarding. Cathy Cartwright and Donna Wallace have edited a wonderful clinical resource to assist nurses in meeting the challenges. More than 32 contributors from 15 medical centers have shared their expertise in 12 chapters that delineate the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of the most common neurosurgical problems. The text, tables, illustrations, photographs, radiographs, scans, “pediatric pearls,” and “parent perspectives” combine to clearly present the essential information about each problem. The more complex the illness or injury, the greater the potential contribution of the skilled and empathetic nurse to patient and family recovery. To paraphrase a parent quoted in this book, each child with a neurosurgical problem will have a unique life story. Although the child’s life story will be affected by the neurosurgical proble...

This text has been written as a resource for those who provide health care for children and their families. Contributors to the book are experts from a range of backgrounds – both in practice and academia. The contributors firmly believe, that the child comes first and foremost; they believe that each child is a unique person with individual needs and aspirations – this stance is clearly reflected in each chapter of the book. Children deserve the best possible care, and this cannot be provided unless there is an understanding of the context of children’s lives, both in the community at large and within healthcare settings. The concept of partnership focuses upon the need to deliver paediatric care in collaboration with the child and the family.This text encourages the reader to apply this approach to care delivery in any situation in which they may be working. Chapter 2 emphasises the importance of this, looking beyond a disease-orientated approach to one where the child ...

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--> More Information Here A nursing diagnosis is defined as a clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes which provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse has accountability (NANDA-I, 2009). Accurate and valid nursing diagnoses guide the selection of interventions that are likely to produce the desired treatment effects and determine nurse-sensitive outcomes. Nursing diagnoses are seen as key to the future of evidence-based, professionally-led nursing care and to more effectively meeting the need of patients. In an era of increasing electronic patient health records, standardized nursing terminologies such as NANDA-I, NIC and NOC provide a means of collecting nursing data that are systematically analysed within and across healthcare organizations and provide essential data for cost/benefit analysis and clinical audit. Nursing Diagnoses: Defin...