Textbook of Community Children's Nursing

This authoritative and inspirational textbook will be essential reading for all child health professionals. Bringing together the work of some of the most distinguished experts in the field, it provides a comprehensive introduction to the major spheres in community children's nursing.

The book is organised into four sections:

Organisational facets influencing the professional development of community children's nursing

Philosophical issues underpinning the delivery of community children's nursing

Dimensions of community children's nursing practice

Advancing community children's nursing

The contributions cover a full range of relevant issues including historical perspectives, theory and clinical practice. Relevant research findings are incorporated and case studies are used as illustration.

The first and currently ONLY book on this topic, addressed specifically at the Community Children's Nurse (CCN)

An authoritative guide to the principles underpinning the development of the specialism which puts into context the scope of the CCN's work and clearly describes his/her place in the community team

A balance of theoretical and practical issues

Offers up-to-date "evidence" which supports the development of this rapidly expanding specialism

"A textbook which, in my view, is likely to become not only essential reading but also to act as a significant marker in the history of the further development of community children s nursing." From the foreword by Elizabeth Fradd