Pediatric & Neonatal

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.

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

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.

For nurses in the fields of women's health, maternity, and newborn care

Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing

From its superior illustrations and striking full-color design to its abundant special features, it's easy to see why it's been the #1 pediatric nursing text for over 20 years. It provides readers with the essential information they need to deliver safe and accurate care. Divided into two logical parts, the first half of the book focuses on child development and health promotion by age group and lays the foundation for the second half of the book which addresses specific health problems organized by body systems.

• Text focuses on the family throughout by emphasizing the role and influence of the family in health and illness
  
• Utilizes the nursing process format to present nursing care for major diseases and disorders.
  
• Guidelines boxes throughout the text provide step-by-step instructions for performing specific skills or procedures
  
• Emergency Treatment boxes provide quick reference in critical situations
  
• Nursing Care Plans incorporate patient- and family-centered goals and include rationales for nursing interventions
  
• Family Home Care boxes highlight important information to better prepare families to cope with their child¡¦s care in special situations
  
• Disorder sections provide detailed presentations of pathophysiology
  
• Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues and provide additional resources for guidance on caring for children outside the clinical setting
  
• Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect child care
  
• Atraumatic Care boxes provide guidance for administering nursing care with minimal pain or stress to the child, family, and nurse
  
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes throughout the text focus students¡¦ attention on application of both research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care
  
• Nursing Alerts and Nursing Tips are highlighted throughout the text to provide the reader with either critical information (Alerts) or helpful hints (Tips)
  
• CD companion features critical thinking questions, case studies, nursing care plans, assessment tools, new NCLEXÂ¥ examination-style review questions, and skills

• Critical Thinking Exercises encourage self-evaluation about clinical judgements
  
• Ethical Case Studies provide realistic learning experiences
  
• The most current information on immunizations to keep readers up-to-date
  
• Appendix with Spanish-English translations includes words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions
  
• A chapter on Chronic Illness, Disability, and End-of-Life Care provides the necessary content for quality nursing care at the end of life

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.

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children (4th Edition) (MyNursingLab Series)

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.

Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation (Neonatal Resuscitation: Textbook)

Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook (Pediatric Physical Examination)

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.

Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing (Foundations of Maternal- Newborn Nursing)

Continually praised for its reader-friendly coverage of complex topics, this trusted resource provides fundamental, step-by-step guidance for assessing and caring for new mothers, newborns, and families. It carefully integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and critical thinking all into the overall continuum of nursing care. The updated 4th edition integrates evidence-based practice where appropriate and includes the latest information on women's health and fetal monitoring.

· Nursing Process framework used throughout.
· Over 30 Nursing Care Plans apply the nursing process to clinical situations and include critical thinking questions.
· Multicultural considerations and changing family structures integrated throughout.
· Communication Cues provide hints and techniques for interpreting client and family statements and behaviors.
· Therapeutic Communication boxes use actual client-nurse dialogues to illustrate communication how-to's.
· Procedure Guides present common procedures with rationales for each step.
· Critical Thinking questions complete with answers and rationales, present students with real life clinical situations.
· Critical-to-Remember boxes highlight vital concerns such as danger signs of pregnancy, behaviors associated with substance abuse, and facts about HIV.
· Drug Guides outline indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications
· Sample Clinical Pathways guide students through today's collaborative care.
· Check Your Reading questions help students assess their mastery of key content.
· Want to Know boxes offer practical patient education guidelines.
· Free student Companion CD-ROM with case studies, NCLEX review questions, care planning exercises, Nursing skills outlines, and NEW Videos of a vaginal birth, Cesarean birth, Assessment of the pregnant woman, and Assessment of the Neonate

• Increased emphasis on community and home care throughout reflects today's shift from hospital care to the home and other community settings.
• Integrated evidence-based practice emphasizes the importance of applying current research findings.
• Thoroughly updated content in key topic areas covers fetal monitoring and women's health, including estrogen and hormone replacement therapy.

Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))