Principles of Pediatric Nursing

Description

Principles of Pediatric Nursing presents a foundation of core pediatric nursing principles with an emphasis on growth and development, family-centered care, and health promotion and maintenance. Nursing students often bring an adult-health mindset to pediatric nursing, which can obscure the special considerations needed to effectively care for children. Principles of Pediatric Nursing helps you visualize how to care for children, in ways that both mirror and diverge from care for adult patients.

The 8th Edition includes Healthy People 2030 objectives, a new Focus on Genetics feature, and a new QSEN Concept feature demonstrating how QSEN competencies can be applied to clinical practice.

New and updated features of this title

Practical guidance

• UPDATED: Nursing Care Plans address nursing care for patients with complications, such as a child with otitis media. New clinical problem statements describe the nursing issues to be addressed.
• EXPANDED: The section on nursing management has been expanded. It now helps student better understand and apply care principles. For greater readability, the section’s content has been grouped under the headings Nursing Assessment, Planning and Implementation, and Evaluation.
• NEW: Nursing Care in Action features at the end of each chapter propose a real-life scenario and a series of questions. They help students consider how they might respond in a clinical setting.

Themes in nursing care

• NEW: Healthy People 2030 objectives appear at the start of certain chapters. They help students make connections between family care and broad-based community healthcare and public policy.
• NEW: Focus on Genetics feature provides information, clinical research and ethical considerations on the genetic implications of topics addressed in the chapter.
• NEW: QSEN Concept provides examples of how the QSEN competencies of patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, quality improvement, and informatics can be applied to clinical practice.

Hallmark features of this title

Essential pediatric nursing skills

• Assessment Guides covers physical assessment and normal findings, alterations and possible causes, and guidelines for nursing interventions.
• Professionalism in Practice feature illustrates nurses’ role in working with other health professionals.

Clinical reasoning and research applications

• Clinical Reasoning boxes provide case scenarios and ask students to respond appropriately.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes present recent nursing research and discuss implications for nursing practice.

Study resources

• Focus Your Study at the end of each chapter outlines main concepts and includes helpful references.
• Pearson’s online nursing resources include NCLEX-RN^® review questions, case studies, care plans and critical-thinking questions.

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