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

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• A family focus emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.
• A "wellness" emphasis consists of age-specific information on health promotion and injury prevention important to specific age groups, and discusses have fun, security, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality.
• Detailed presentations of pathophysiology in disorder sections offer 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 offer 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 offer guidance for administering nursing care together with minimal pain or stress to the kid, family, and nurse.
• Ethical case studies reflect advanced patient care situations and illustrate proper consideration in care delivery.
• Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues and offer additional resources on caring for kids outside the clinical environment.
• Emergency Treatment boxes offer fast reference in critical situations.
• Nursing Alerts offer critical information and Nursing Tips offer helpful hints.
• Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect kid care.
• Chapter Outlines and Learning Objectives guide your approach to learning.
• Key Points help you review and study important concepts.
• Up-to-date references highlight research and focus your review of important content.
• Spanish-English translations in the appendix aspect words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions.
• Related Topics and Additional Resources in every 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 extra.

• New Pain Assessment and Management in Kids chapter consolidates coverage of this subject for simple reference.
• Nursing care plans offer a model for planning patient care, counting nursing diagnoses, patient/family goals, nursing interventions/rationales, expected outcomes, and newly integrated NIC and NOC classifications.
• Family-Centered Care boxes help you prepare families to cope together with their kid's care in exclusive situations, getting information on patient teaching, home care, and incorporating the family in the kid's care.
• Nursing process boxes offer streamlined, accessible information on key diseases and conditions.

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