Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient
When we began working in pediatric neurosurgery as advanced practice
nurses, we searched for a reference that would explain the different neurosurgical
conditions affecting our patients and teach us how to care for
them. There was nothing to be found. We asked our colleagues for a reference
and they, too, had found none. “Someone should write a book about
how to care for pediatric neurosurgery patients,” we all said each time we
met at the AANS pediatric neurosurgery section meeting.
Finally, it dawned on us. We were the someone. We were the ones that
have cared for these children over the years. We were the ones that should
share...