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

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

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

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