Developing Nursing Practice with Children and Young People

Geraldine Lyte and Jane Hughes are both Lecturers in Child Nursing at the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting, University of Manchester

• Part One: Becoming a children’s nurse- an exploration of developing scope and practice. Chapter 1: The emergence of the 21st century Children’s and Young People’s Nurse.Chapter Two: The changing educational landscape of children’s and young people’s nursing.Chapter Three: An international comparison of children’s and young people’s nursing roles.Part Two: The Registered Practitioner in Nursing- scope of Practice.Chapter Four: the newly qualified practitioner in acute settings.Chapter Five: The newly qualified practitioner in primary care.Chapter Six: The Public Health Practitioner.Chapter Seven: The Children and Young peoples Mental Health Practitioner.Chapter Eight: The Practitioner working with Children and Young People with Disabilities.Chapter Nine: Safeguarding and supporting children & young people and their families.Part three – Advancing Nursing Roles in Children and young people’s Nursing.Chapter Ten: The Advanced Practitioner in emergency and acute assessment units.Chapter Eleven: Advancing Nursing Roles and interdisciplinary working: more examples from practice.Chapter Twelve: Careers in Research and Education.Chapter Thirteen: Looking to the Future

?This well-written book provides a comprehensive assessment of nursing roles in children's nursing and other issues impacting these roles in today's healthcare systems.? (Doody?s, 2009)