Children in Hospital: A Guide for Family and Carers (Oxford Medical Publications) - Softcover

Children in Hospital provides and introduction to the everyday life and emotional needs of children, families, and staff. Although written primarily for professionals working in a paediatric setting, it has much of relevance for parents as well. It combines an up-to-date review of the literature with the personal experience of the author, who has been associated with one of the world's leading children's hospitals for more than twenty years.

After an opening historical section, there are chapters on what children understand about their illness and treatment, play, pain, dealing with life-threatening conditions, stress in patients, families, and staff, ethical and legal issues and many other topics.