A guide for students of nursing, child care and health, 2nd edition.

This book is fully updated. It provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialize in working with children. It is great book that you should have it.

This book will be an essential reading for all those working with children and families in the health and social care sector, enabling them to ensure children enjoy a safe and healthy childhood in line with Every Child Matters and new national service framework directives.


The author is an experienced nurse teacher, guides you through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through childhood and adolescence. This book has two major contain:

• 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; and 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.

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