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Neonatal nursing

edited by Doreen Crawford and Maryke Morris

Chapman & Hall, 1994

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Includes bibliographical refereces and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

There are many books on the care of the sick infant and some are excellent. Most, however, are written with medicine in mind. This book is written mainly by experienced neonatal nurses, although some chapters have been written by the appropriate specialists. lt is intended primarily for nurses who Iook after sick infants and is not intended to be an exhaustive reference but to address some of the issues and concepts of neonatal care in the 1990s. Nursing models are an important part of neonatal care in the 1990s but this book has not been written within this framework. There are several reasons for this: arguably no current model is ideally suited to neonates and the favouring of one particular model might restriet the book's applicability. Also, as contributors from other disciplines were invited to contribute we were anxious that these chapters did not stand out as oddities. Additionally, much neonatal care overlaps and were a framework to be used in its entirety for each nursing care chapter we feit that there could be some repeti tion; conversely, if a framework was fragmented in some chap ters to cover specific areas of care, we were concemed that the overall effect would have been 'bitty'. We feit that such treat ment of nursing models would have been unjustifiable. In this book, the terms 'infant' and 'baby' are used inter changeably and where the term 'he' is used, the term 'she' is equally appropriate.

Table of Contents

Neonatal care today.- Nursing models: suitable frameworks for care?.- Prenatal and intranatal care of the fetus, mother and father.- Resuscitation - flying squad transfer.- Nursing care of babies who are born too soon or too small.- Nursing care of a baby with a disorder of the gastrointestinal system.- Feeding low birth weight infants in today's neonatal environment.- Nursing care of a baby with a disorder of the respiratory system.- Nursing care of a baby with a disorder of the cardiovascular system.- Infant neurology.- Nursing care of a baby in renal failure.- Neonatal infection.- Nursing care of a baby with jaundice.- Nursing care of a baby in pain and discomfort.- Enhancing Development in the Neonatal Unit.- Neonatal pharmacology.- Ethical issues in the neonatal unit.- Home oxygenation.- Infant statistics.

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  • NCID
    BA24796407
  • ISBN
    • 0412487306
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxii, 400 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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