Journal of Clinical Nursing 200; 12: 151-153 / It is particularly targeted at preregistration students of nursing, health care support workers at National Vocational Qualification level three, and those who support the learning process Each scenario is presented in a chapter of it's own in an easy-to-read style that befit a study text such as this The listed sources offer up-to-date evidence and research for follow-up study. To complete each scenario, comprehensive answers to the questions are provided and, where appropriate, the answers are supported by tables and figures There is detailed clinical information that will help readers to aquire a knowledge of a range of health problems that confront children, and how the latter react both physically and psychologically, depending on their developmental maturity By focusing on specific aspects of care, however, the scenarios in this text act as excellent study guides for students to learn about real clinical issues such as resuscitation. They can serve as an important resource for both students and their educators to support the more enquiry-led approches to learning that are in use, such as problem based learning about child health care needs, to explore other nursing-related issues that have not been included in the questions posed This book is useful for supporting beginning and early intermediate parts of undergraduate programmes in children's nursing As a teaching tool the book has much to offer The book covers amny areas with which students need to be conversant in terms of caring for sik children .
