Contents |
Introduction to children's health care -- Care across clinical settings -- Essential safety models -- Cultural and religious influences to care -- Working and communicating with an interdisciplinary team -- Caring for neonates and infants -- Caring for toddlers -- Caring for preschoolers -- Caring for school-age children -- Caring for adolescents -- Symptom management across childhood -- Caring for families under stress -- Caring for an abused child -- Gastrointestinal elimination -- Metabolism -- Gas exchange and oxygenation -- Skin integrity -- Cellular regulation -- Cardiovascular perfusion -- Sensory perceptions : impairments and disorders -- Intracranial regulation -- Genitourinary elimination -- Mobility -- Cognition and mental health -- Immune system disorders -- Infection and communicable diseases in childhood -- Essential skills for pediatric nursing -- Safe and legal aspects of care -- Care of the acutely ill or critically ill child -- The dying child -- Appendices. Pediatric nursing care : helpful professional organizations -- 18 common pediatric medication and supportive calculations -- Pediatric-focused laboratory values -- Nationally normed growth charts -- Best practices in pediatric nursing care : handoff sheets and huddle tips -- Pediatric-focused checklists and helpful mnemonics -- Steps to prevent pediatric medication errors : safety tips -- Rapid response, code blue skills, and PEWS tools -- Tips for maintaining professional boundaries in pediatric/family nursing care -- Formula feeding guidelines for infants -- How to effectively talk to children -- Quick guide to selected developmental theorists. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Source of description | Online resource; title from electronic title page (R2 Digital Library, viewed November 10, 2017). |
Issued in other form | Print version: Linnard-Palmer, Luanne. Pediatric nursing care. Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2018] 9781284081428 |
ISBN | 9781284081435 (electronic bk.) |
ISBN | 1284081435 (electronic bk.) |