Children’s Nursing Placements

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.
Children's nursing placements can be daunting - you'll be working in a variety of settings and caring for a range of children and their families when they are at their most vulnerable. You will have new colleagues to work with, and newly learned nursing theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less stressful.

From absence policy to paediatric early warning scores, via faeces, it's full of practical
detail, hints and tips.

Before we start
1. Top tips from child nursing students

Getting there
2. Preparing for placement
3. Uniform
4. Absence from placement
5. The NMC Code
6. Family-centred care
7. Consent, competence and confidentiality
8. Guidance on using social media

Settling there
9. Induction and first day
10. Working with your practice supervisor (mentor)
11. Common documentation
12. Communicating with your colleagues
     12.1 Answering the phone
13. Communicating with children, young people and families

Being there
14. Personal safety
     14.1 Hand hygiene
     14.2 Infection control and sharps policy
     14.3 Moving and handling
15. Fundamental skills
     15.1 Assessment using activities of daily living
     15.2 Healthy Child Programme
     15.3 A to E assessment
     15.4 Observation of vital signs
     15.5 Paediatric early warning scores (PEWS)
     15.6 Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT)
     15.7 Drug administration
     15.8 Drug calculations for children
     15.9 Infant Feeding
     15.10 Nutrition and fluids
     15.11 Skin assessment
     15.12 Urinalysis
     15.13 Faeces
     15.14 Risk assessment from a paediatric perspective
     15.15 Safeguarding children and young people
     15.16 Play and distraction
16. Paediatric Basic Life Support and choking
17. Common medical emergencies
     17.1 Respiratory distress
     17.2 Sepsis
     17.3 Anaphylactic reaction
     17.4 Escalating concerns
18. Pain and pain assessment
19. Common medication groups for children

Moving on from there
20. Reflection
21. FAQs
22. Common terminology
23. Useful websites