Children's Nursing Case Book

Part I - Promoting health

CASE 1 A 5 year old girl who is clinically obese


CASE 2 A 7 year old boy who appears to be neglected


CASE 3 A 14 year old girl admitted to hospital after trying alcohol


PART 2 - Acutely ill children

CASE 1 An infant with pyrexia and febrile convulsions resulting from an unknown infection


CASE 2 Emergency admission with brittle asthma


CASE 3 Emergency surgery for appendicitis


PART 3 - Critically ill child

CASE 1 Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) in a neonate


CASE 2 A two year old toddler who has sustained a head injury


CASE 3 A child with a suspected diagnosis of typhoid fever following recent foreign travel


CASE 4 Planned elective surgery for congenital spinal disorder: post-surgical care


PART 4 - Trauma

CASE 1 Car accident, mother killed

CASE 2 An 11 year old child with learning disability who steps into scalding bath water and partly submerges his feet, lower legs and buttocks


CASE 3 Knife assault


PART 5 - Long-term conditions

CASE 1 Neonatal Prematurity

CASE 2 A child with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus who is in transition from primary to secondary school

CASE 3 A baby with short gut, referred to tertiary services following presentation with failure to thrive

CASE 4 A teenager with chronic renal disease awaiting transfer from paediatric services to adult services


PART 6 - Emotional and mental health

CASE 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder

CASE 2 A teenage girl with anorexia

CASE 3 Sickle Cell Disease

PART 7 - Life-limiting conditions and palliative care

CASE 1 Deterioration of mobility in a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

CASE 2 Osteosarcoma in a teenager who develops secondaries

CASE 3 Transition to adult services: Cystic Fibrosis

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