Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses: Practice Guidelines for Nurses 5th Edition

Awarded third place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Child Health category!Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive resource for well-child management and acute care management of childhood illnesses in a primary care setting. Written by practicing experts, this text is intended for advanced practice nursing students as a quick reference guide once they enter clinical practice. To manage initial and follow-up visits, the text features templates for gathering first visit history, as well as a template to record new information since the last visit. Instructions for gathering medical history information are also included. The Fifth Edition is divided into two sections. The first section covers well-child care and includes new patient intake with a family, well-child visits, and normal growth and development. The second section covers common childhood disorders in each system of the body. It is organized by body system and presents common medical conditions, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and patient/family education. Provides the need-to-know information in an easy-to-use guidebook format for quick reference.Relevant information for each age group is provided in separate chapters, helping students prepare to interview parents, examine children, and offer anticipatory guidance.Common problems are organized by body system and include billing codes, assessment, differential diagnoses, treatment plan, follow-up, and parent/child education about the diagnosis.Features full-color images of common dermatological conditions for easy visual reference.Every new print copy is packaged with an access code to unlock the complete eBook.Downloadable instructor resources include Case Studies with Answers, Discussion Questions with Answers, a Test Bank, and Slides in PowerPoint Format. Pediatric Assessment Child Health Pediatric Health Common Pediatric Management Issues © 2023 | 700 pages