Product Description

Thoroughly updated throughout, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through childhood and adolescence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58337 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 258 pages

From the Back Cover

Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through childhood and adolescence.

Chapter 1 sets the scene for physical needs in child development, such as the need to be warm and safe. Chapters 2 to 9 cover the body systems:

• skeletal
• nervous
• cardiovascular
• respiratory
• renal
• digestive
• reproductive
• immune.

The embryology and physiological function at birth is explored in each chapter before the text moves on through the many changes over the next decade to puberty and the arrival at adult functioning. A new final chapter provides a holistic account of children’s development, body and mind. Each chapter is illustrated with line drawings and tables, and ends with scenarios which illustrate how knowledge supports good practice in a real-life situation, and a quiz to consolidate learning.

Concise and clearly written, this introductory text will be essential reading for all those working with children and families in the health and social care sector who must be aware of Every Child Matters and new national service framework government directives to ensure children enjoy a safe and healthy childhood.

Janet MacGregor was the Faculty of Health and Social Care Director of Knowledge Transfer and Foundation Degrees at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is now Principal of the College of Nursing at Fatima Memorial System, Lahore, Pakistan.

About the Author

Janet MacGregor is the Faculty of Health and Social Care Director of Knowledge Transfer and Foundation Degrees at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Customer Reviews

A & P of children
This is a very good all round text book, covering different aspects of childrens growth; includes various holistic needs, all systems, including skeletal, nervous and immune, routine tests and various illnesses/problems from embryo to adolescence. essential for child branch students.

A helpful supplementary book.
This book is an helpfull supplementary book. However you need a basic anaotomy and physiology to accompany this book. It dicusses development of the foetus and how systems change at birth. It then goes on to discuss changes during the childs life.

invaluable book for the aspiring paediatric nurse
An introduction to normal, healthy physical development for professionals who specialize in working with children. Janet McGregor, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from birth through adolescence. Topics covered include: the skeletal system; the nervous system; the cardiovascular system; the respiratory system; the renal system; the digestive system; the reproduction system; the immune system; and co-ordination of the systems. Each chapter ends with a scenario which encourages the student to apply the information provided to real-life situations and a question designed to extend, through further reading, the students' knowledge and understanding of the specific system. This introductory text has been written for nurses following the child branch of the DipHE in Nursing, for student midwives, health visitors and school nurses, for nursery nurses, and any person caring for children who aims to promote their healthy development.
An invaluable book for the aspiring paediatric nurse.