Product Description: 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 NCLEX¥ 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
Co-written by a maternity and pediatrics nursing author team throughly integrates materna-newborn nursing adn pediatric nursing in one since book. Equal focus is placed on community-based and hospital-based care to address the increasing balance between both nursing care settings.
This edition has increased coverage of pain assessment and management, nutrition and health promotion, patient education and communication, research based practice, and assessment as the core of the nursing process. A CD-ROM includes NCLEX-RN practice questions and Critical Thinking in Action videos.
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
Product Description: For nearly three quarters of a century, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics has been the world's most trusted resource for best approaches to pediatric care. Now in full color for easier referencing, this New Edition continues the tradition, incorporating a wealth of exciting updates and changesensuring you have access to today's authoritative knowledge to best diagnose and treat every pediatric patient you see. Whether you're treating patients in the office or in the hospital, or preparing for the boards, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th Edition is your comprehensive guide to providing the best possible care.
Get an enhanced focus on general pediatrics with editorial contributions from new editor Dr. Bonita F. Stanton.
Treat your inpatient and ambulatory patients more effectively with the absolute latest on new topics such as quality improvement and patient care safety *school violence and bullying * preventive measures * vitamin deficiencies * adolescent rape * effect of war on children * and more.
Improve your therapeutic skills with the newest knowledge on the principles of antibiotic therapy * antiviral therapy * antiparasitic therapy * antimycobacterial therapy * and others.
Understand the principles of therapy and which drugs and dosages to prescribe for every disease.
Locate key content more easily and identify clinical conditions quicker thanks to a new full-color design and full-color photographs.
This is an essential book for the shorter courses in maternity nursing, e.g., 4-8 weeks long or as a refresher for professionals. Features in this book include: Women's Health and Reproductive Issues; Conception and Development; Pregnancy--Normal and High Risk; Labor--Normal and High Risk; Birth--Normal and High Risk; Postpartum Care--Normal and High Risk; Newborn Care--Normal and High Risk. Nursing students and professionals.
Product Description: This book details the advances that have been made in theory development and demonstrate the continued relevance of theory to nursing practice. Chapters discuss concepts, statement, and theory development with recently published examples of theory strategies, emphasizing concept analytical work. Introductory chapters clarify the relevance of theory to nursing practice, while concluding chapters contain a greater emphasis on how theories can be tested for validity and utility in practice. Features include: Recent theory development work being done by nurses; Emergent philosophical views that reflect increased diversity; and International nursing theory development. Nursing Professionals.
Product Description: 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 Seventh 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.
Product Description: This is an essential study guide of the student nurse using, Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing. It has retained the same basic format of previous editions including the review of key concepts and terms. This guide offers such question formats as fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and matching, as well as critical thinking exercises to make the student's learning experience more rewarding.
A variety of questions that cover a review of content and clinical application of key concepts in the text.
Critical Thinking sections for each chapter with questions to help students analyze the chapter's content.
Case Studies in many of the Critical Thinking sections cover situations that are frequently encountered by the nurse in practice helping students address specific practice issues.
Key Terms help students learn and retain pediatric terminology used in each chapter.
Answers to the questions for each chapter are included at the end of the Study Guide.
