Pediatrics

Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children (Wongs Nursing Care of Infants and Children)

Long relied on as the industry's most comprehensive, authoritative source for information on the care of pediatric patients, this respected text presents a wealth of nursing knowledge in vividly illustrated, easy-to-read chapters. Current, evidence-based practice is reflected throughout, from its emphasis on wellness to its use of the nursing process and nursing care plans. Now even more user-friendly and inviting, the updated, full-color layout and improved readability guide readers every step of the way. No other book on the subject offers more expert, practical, relevant coverage than Wong's Nursing Care of Infants & Children, 8th Edition.

• A focus on the family throughout emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.
• Disorder sections provide a detailed presentation of pathophysiology to foster a clear understanding of the impact of disease on normal physiologic functions.
• Content provides a holistic view of the child and family by integrating aspects of wellness and health such as play, safety, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality into the appropriate age chapters.
• Nursing care plans incorporate patient- and family-centered goals, include rationales for nursing interventions, and contain NIC and NOC outcomes and interventions where appropriate.
• Helpful boxes throughout the text draw the reader's attention to relevant topics:
• Guidelines boxes provide step-by-step instructions on performing specific skills and procedures.
• Unique Emergency Treatment boxes serve as quick reference for critical situations.
• Community Focus boxes provide additional resources and guidance on caring for children outside the clinical setting.
• Unique Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect child care.
• Unique Atraumatic Care boxes provide guidance for administering nursing care with minimal pain or stress to the child, family, and nurse.
• Unique Family Home Care boxes highlight important information to better prepare families to cope with their child's care in special situations.
• Unique critical thinking exercises challenge readers to make clinical judgments and apply knowledge to specific situations using their analytical skills.
• Nursing Alerts and Nursing Tips are highlighted throughout the text to provide critical information or helpful hints.
• Unique resources including phone numbers, fax numbers, and Internet sites are provided for students, children, and families.
• CD-ROM packaged with the book features NCLEX® review questions, pediatric assessment video clips, animations, critical thinking questions, case studies, assessment tools, and more!

• Unique Evidence-Based Practice boxes draw attention to application of both research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care.
• Unique Ethics Case Studies reflect the complex patient care situations nurses face in clinical practice and illustrate considerations for proper care delivery.
• A new chapter on pain assessment and management in children draws together a wealth of information into one chapter for comprehensive coverage and easy reference.
• Streamlined nursing process information is presented in boxes to help readers easily locate information on major diseases and conditions.
• Updated immunization information reflects current practice.
• A new appendix of Spanish translations contains words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions.

Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (Wong))

The #1 pediatric nursing textbook on the market, this book is known for its accuracy, current research, and highly readable writing style. It provides a foundation in child development and health promotion, and covers specific health problems - organized by age groups and body systems, so you can individualize care at the appropriate level for each child. A streamlined approach, superior illustrations, and a full-color design make it easy to find and understand key nursing information.

• A family focus emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.
• A "wellness" emphasis includes age-specific information on health promotion and injury prevention relevant to specific age groups, and discusses play, safety, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality.
• Detailed presentations of pathophysiology in disorder sections provide a clear understanding of the impact of disease on normal physiologic functions.
• Critical thinking exercises help you apply your knowledge and clinical judgments to specific situations.
• Nursing Care Guidelines boxes provide clear, step-by-step instructions for performing specific skills or procedures.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes help you apply research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care.
• Atraumatic Care boxes provide guidance for administering nursing care with minimal pain or stress to the child, family, and nurse.
• Ethical case studies reflect complex patient care situations and illustrate proper consideration in care delivery.
• Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues and provide additional resources on caring for children outside the clinical setting.
• Emergency Treatment boxes provide quick reference in critical situations.
• Nursing Alerts provide critical information and Nursing Tips provide helpful hints.
• Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect child care.
• Chapter Outlines and Learning Objectives guide your approach to learning.
• Key Points help you review and learn important concepts.
• Up-to-date references highlight research and focus your review of important content.
• Spanish-English translations in the appendix feature words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions.
• Related Topics and Additional Resources in each chapter refer you to related information inside the book and in ancillary materials.
• Free companion CD features NCLEX exam-style review questions, animations, critical thinking questions, case studies, modifiable nursing care plans, pediatric assessment video clips, illustrated pediatric skills, anatomy reviews, and more.

• New Pain Assessment and Management in Children chapter consolidates coverage of this subject for easy reference.
• Nursing care plans provide a model for planning patient care, including nursing diagnoses, patient/family goals, nursing interventions/rationales, expected outcomes, and newly included NIC and NOC classifications.
• Family-Centered Care boxes help you prepare families to cope with their child's care in special situations, providing information on patient teaching, home care, and incorporating the family in the child's care.
• Nursing process boxes provide streamlined, accessible information on major diseases and conditions.

Pediatric Primary Care (Burns, Pediatric Primary Care)

This fourth edition of Pediatric Primary Care is prepared to assist the pediatric healthcare provider to understand the wide spectrum of conditions seen in primary care of children. Written by experienced authors familiar with the scope of practice and knowledge base of pediatric nurse practitioners, it emphasizes prevention as well as management, and presents guidelines on assessing children from infancy through adolescence. The text is appropriate for nurse practitioner, medical, and physician assistant students as well as experienced clinicians who want a current pediatric primary care resource with easy access to information.

• Management chapters include numerous tables to facilitate differential diagnoses and summarize management strategies.
• Resource boxes inform readers of helpful websites as well as organizations and useful printed materials.
• The Environmental Health chapter is specially updated to address more key toxicants, and presents resources for diagnosis and management.
• Theories and applications of complementary care are discussed in the Complementary Therapies chapter. Tables on herbal interactions and many complementary treatments for common childhood conditions are featured.
• Color inserts feature 31 full-color photographs illustrating ear, skin, and other conditions and symptoms.
• The Pediatric Medication appendix includes the latest drugs used in pediatric primary care with specific dosing for infant, children, adolescents, and adults when applicable.
• Other appendices present growth charts, laboratory values and the latest asthma management guidelines.

• Updated content includes in-depth discussion of childhood obesity and mental health problems.
• Additional information on urgent care of children is included in the disease management sections.
• Discussion Forum questions are included with each management chapter.

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (8th Edition)

Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This book is not only important reading for maternity nurses, but also can be used as an invaluable reference tool. The Eighth Edition of this popular book not only continues to emphasize the central role played by maternity nurses working with today's childbearing families, but also includes a global perspective, covering culture as a factor in relating to the woman's childbirth experience. It also includes a comprehensive, accessible segment on women's health issues.

Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, And Adolescents, 3rd Edition

Now the authoritative AAP Guidelines for Health Supervision III is combined with the practical approach Bright Futures delivers. The result: an updated, highly efficient system to help you provide better health care.

The new 3rd includes the most current recommendations for the top 10 areas of child development and the most up-to-date well child supervision standards.

Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families (2nd Edition)

Child-Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families 2e reflects the core value of family-centered care. Partnership! continues to be the foundation for this second edition, comprehensive and reader-friendly pediatric nursing reference book. Written by leaders in the field of Pediatric Nursing, this book simplifies the content of pediatric nursing in a practical format that makes it easy for users to learn and professors to teach. Recognizing the family as the central influence in each child’s life and respect for families of all cultures, continues to make this text a first in its class! New features in this edition include: Anatomy & Physiology and Pediatric Differences review at the beginning of the systems chapters; A Day in the Life of a Nurse which focuses on the nurse in a specialty, such as a school nurse or a hospital nurse; and NCLEX- RN review questions to the end of each chapter.

Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this leading text provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Its concise, logical organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on health promotion and on the family make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients.

• Focuses on family-centered care, health promotion and illness prevention, women's health issues, and growth and development of the child and parent.
• Covers a wide range of maternal and pediatric care with 35 skills and provides expected outcomes, interventions, and rationales for nursing care 30 nursing care plans.
• Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each Nursing Care Plan challenge students to evaluate and apply the plan of care to specific clinical situations.
• Nursing Tips throughout the text provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting.
• Pictorial story of a vaginal birth includes photos through delivery.
• Cultural considerations as they relate to pregnancy and delivery, maternal/infant, and pediatric care in detailed tables help nurses develop cultural sensitivity when caring for diverse patient populations.
• Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool checklist assists the nurse in developing an individualized plan of care.

• Health Promotion Considerations boxes focus on prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and more.
• Companion CD-ROM, bound with the book, includes videos of both a normal delivery and a cesarian birth, 70 neonatal and pediatric assessment video clips, 3-D animations, audio glossary, and Patient Teaching Plans in Spanish and English.
• Discusses CPR specifically for the pregnant patient.
• MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Provides discussions of changes in clinical care recommendations, including use of Ipecac® for poisoning, vaginal birth after caesarian, and pain relief in newborns.
• Includes the latest content on infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, sexual abuse, assault, rape in the pediatric population, and the adolescent as a parent.
• Includes an appendix of JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.

Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook

This portable, photographic guide for nurse practitioners describes how to develop the unique range of skills required to assess children of all ages. Not often learned in the context of adult assessment, these skills help in easily and effectively examining children from childbirth through young adulthood. System chapters begin with the development of the fetus and take the reader through the key developmental stages of childhood. For infants and young children, this guide uses the "quiet-to-active" approach, popular among pediatric experts and more effective than the traditional head-to-toe approach. * Over 200 photos and line drawings allow the reader to learn visually. * Uses the quiet-to-active approach to pediatric examination, starting with listening and moving on to touching. * Unique coverage of assessment of the preterm infant. * Environmental Health History chapter covers the assessment of environmental risk factors in children. * Quick-reference text! boxes focus on abnormal conditions. * Information Gathering boxes display questions and data needed from the patient/guardian. * Key Points emphasize developmental and cultural factors in assessing a child. * Charting examples show how to record physical findings in the medical record. * Pediatric Pearls highlight key physical findings and techniques to improve pediatric examinations. * An easy-access two-column style provides concise information.

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing (2nd Edition)

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of child health nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series is a comprehensive CD-ROM, to provide additional review material. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering growth & development, nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, special considerations, and much more. For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children, Essentials Version (4th Edition)

The fourth edition of this text is intended for pediatric nursing courses, one of the required courses in nursing programs The most concise, readable pediatric nursing text for use in RN programs. Exceptionally user-friendly and up-to-date, it uses a unique body system approach rather than developmental stages, allowing faculty to teach pediatrics in integrated course or short course without redundancy. This approach also focuses students on nursing care. Features abundant four-color photos and drawings throughout, extensive marginal notes, chapter-opening vignettes and more plus a heavy emphasis on community nursing. This text details the core essentials of pediatric nursing practice while also providing the critical thinking skills necessary for future challenges.