title: Systemic necrotizing vasculitis: a review, with the personal perspective of a nurse educator.
abstract: Although its definition is simple, systemic necrotizing vasculitis (SNV) is a complex, potentially life-threatening disease. By reviewing current published literature, this article provides an overview of vasculitis and focuses on what is common to the many individual systemic vascular diseases (vasculitides). A case history of a 10-year-old girl with SNV is included. Parse's Human Becoming theory is reviewed briefly as it applies to this case.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D020293:Vasculitis, Central Nervous System / Q000451:nursing*