Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing

DESCRIPTION

Portable and convenient, Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition is your "go-to" clinical guide for the care of children and their families, whether in the hospital, clinic, community setting, or home. It includes assessment tools that may be used in practice, nursing care plans for specific disorders, and new information on pediatric pain assessment and management. Evidence-based guidelines are updated and also include patient teaching instructions, so you'll find all information on a specific procedure in one location. Written by leading pediatric experts David Wilson and Marilyn Hockenberry, this reference includes a companion Evolve website with nursing care plans that may be customized and printed for use with individual patients.

KEY FEATURES

• Complete, concise assessment data on general health, specific problems, nutrition, sleep, and growth and development is easy to access in the clinical setting.
• UNIQUE! Evidence-based interventions include guidelines for treating pediatric patients and providing information to their families and caregivers, with new interventions added on phototherapy and asthma inhalers.
• UNIQUE! Safety Alerts highlight safety information throughout the book.
• UNIQUE! Atraumatic Care boxes contain techniques for care that minimize pain, discomfort, and stress.
• Nursing Care Plans include guidelines and examples for developing care plans for patients, and a companion Evolve website allows you to modify, customize, and print these care plans.
• UNIQUE! A community focus includes guidelines to interventions, patient teaching, and home care, along with Community Focus boxes throughout book.
• Tables and charts for health promotion summarize nutrition, immunizations, safety and injury prevention, and parental guidance.
• Common laboratory test data is provided at your fingertips.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• UNIQUE! Modifiable Nursing Care Plans for 24 pediatric conditions are included in the care plan constructor on the companion Evolve website.
• UNIQUE! Patient teaching instructions on Evolve allow you to print and disseminate sets of easy-to-understand instructions to caregivers, with 15 translated into Spanish.
• NEW Pain Assessment and Management unit presents pain management strategies for the neonate, child, and adolescent.
• NEW! Full-color photos of dermatologic conditions help you diagnose the pediatric dermatologic problems most commonly seen in practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Unit 1: Assessment
• Health History
• Cultural Assessment
• Physical Assessment
• Nursing Assessment of Specific Health Problems
• Family Assessment
• Nutritional Assessment
• Sleep Assessment
• Growth Measurements
• Assessment of Development
• Assessment of Language and Speech
• Assessment of Vision
• Assessment of Hearing
• Growth and Development

• Unit 2: Health Promotion
• Nutrition
• Immunizations
• Safety and Injury Prevention
• Parental Guidance
• Play

• Unit 3: Pain Assessment and Management
• Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
• Children's Response to Pain
• Nonpharmacologic Strategies for Pain Management
• Analgesic Drug Administration
• Side Effects of Opioids
• Sedation for Painful Procedures

• Unit 4: Evidence-Based Pediatric Nursing Interventions
• Preparing Children for Procedures Based on Developmental Characteristics
• Preparing the Family
• Skin Care and General Hygiene
• Procedures Related to Maintaining Safety
• Positioning for Procedures
• Collection of Specimens
• Procedures Related to Administration of Medications
• End-Of-Life Care Interventions
• Procedures Related to Fluid Balance, Blood Administration, or Nutrition Support
• Ostomy Care Procedures
• Procedures Related to Maintaining Cardiorespiratory Function
• Procedures Related to Maintaining Neurologic Function

• Unit 5: Nursing Care Plans
• The Process of Nursing Infants and Children
• Nursing Care of Common Problems of Ill and Hospitalized Children
• Nursing Care of the Newborn
• Nursing Care of the Child with Respiratory Dysfunction
• Nursing Care of the Child with Cardiovascular Dysfunction
• Nursing Care of the Child with Hematologic/Immunologic Dysfunction
• Nursing Care of the Child with Neurologic Dysfunction
• Nursing Care of the Child with Cancer

• UNIT 6: Reference Data
• Common Laboratory Tests

AUTHOR

By David Wilson, MS, RNC, Faculty, Langston University School of Nursing; Staff Nurse, Pediatric Emergency Center, Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK, USA and Marilyn J. Hockenberry, PhD, RN-CS, PNP-BC, FAAN, Director of Nurse Practitioners, Texas Children's Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Consulting Professor, Duke School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina