Essentials of Nursing Children and Young People - Paperback

by Jayne Price (Editor), Orla McAlinden (Editor), Zoë Veal (Editor)

This book is a one-stop shop for the vast majority of children and young people′s nursing students.

The editors for the new edition are Jayne Price from Kingston University, Orla McAlinden previously from Queen′s University Belfast, and Zoë Veal from UWE Bristol, all with vast experience in nursing children and young people. A high level of research has gone into developing and refining the key features for this edition, such as updated voices and implementing new NMC standards.

This book maps to the content of the majority of pre-registration child nursing programmes, and by adopting a 5 part structure it clearly covers the core parts of training and practice that you will need:

Part 1): Principles of nursing children and young people
Part 2): Wellbeing and development
Part 3): Caring for children and young people with acute health care needs and injury
Part 4): Caring for children and young people with complex and high dependency needs
Part 5): Being a professional children and young people′s nurse

Author Biography

Jayne Price is Professor of Children's Nursing at Kingston University London. She qualified as a general nurse in 1991 (Belfast) and as a children's nurse (Leeds) in 1995. Her clinical background within children's nursing includes a strong focus on oncology and palliative care. Having taught as a Senior Lecturer (Education) at Queen's University Belfast since 2001, Jayne moved to Kingston/St George's in 2014. In her current sole, Jayne teaches and facilitates student learning from foundation degree through to PhD level and has received a number of awards for teaching/educational developments. Throughout her career to date Jayne has made stringent efforts to enhance care for children requiring palliative approach and their families, through practice, education and research. She is a Trustee of Martin House Children's Hospice and is also involved in the work of Shooting Star Children's Hospices. Jayne has published and presented widely nationally and internationally.

Orla McAlinden has been an adult nurse since 1979 (Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Northern Ireland, working through the period of civil and political turbulence known as 'the Troubles') and a children's nurse since 1986 (Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton) and a Lecturer in Children's Nursing at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland since 1992. Her clinical background with children includes medical/surgical nursing, education and clinical experience in PICU and NICU (Lewisham & Evelina Children's Unit at Guy's Hospital London). Orla's clinical and professional interests lie in ethical, legal and professional aspects of children's nursing, with a particular interest in infant mental health, emotional/mental health and wellbeing, complex needs and CAMHs-related issues.

Currently, Orla works in the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland in a Category A Prison, and as a Teaching Assistant at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel for the Nursing Children and Young People's Journal, a Specialist Advisor with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a Steering Group member for RCN Community & Continuing Care Forum, and a Social Media Moderator for that Forum's Facebook/Twitter pages. She is a keen participant with the @WeCYPNurses community on Twitter and an advocate for professional social media use.

Zoë Veal is a senior lecturer in children's and young people's nursing at the University of the West of England, Bristol and has been a registered children's nurse since 1995. Her clinical background has predominately focused on surgical specialities, having worked in both short stay and long stay surgical units, cardiology and cardiac surgery (Bristol Royal Hospital for Children), burns and reconstructive surgery and neurology and neurosurgery (Frenchay Hospital, Bristol). In her current role, Zoë teaches and facilitates student learning from foundation year through to master's level in both theory and practice modules (clinical skills) and has a particular interest in the history of nursing and the use of fiction in nurse education. Zoë has undertaken a number of roles within the university including programme leadership, and she was professional lead for children and young people's nursing at UWE Bristol during the global pandemic. She is currently the admissions tutor for the undergraduate children and young people's nursing degree programme and is also a member of the CYP Nurse Academic Network. Alongside her nursing degree and professional registration as a children's nurse, Zoë also holds degrees in literature and teaching, and is currently working towards a professional doctorate in education (EdD).