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Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing: Third South Asian Edition

  • 3rd Edition - October 15, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jyoti Sarin, C.N. Bhargavi
  • Language: English

Knowledge is power. It enhances one’s thoughts and expands their thinking. What we learn today paves way for tomorrow. Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, Third South As… Read more

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Knowledge is power. It enhances one’s thoughts and expands their thinking. What we learn today paves way for tomorrow. Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, Third South Asia Edition, provides a well-refined, in-depth, and advanced body of knowledge in pediatric nursing to ameliorate, excel, and outshine the professional skills of nurses in both theory and practice. It enhances a nurse’s abilities in handling a child in a comprehensive manner. The book covers a cocktail of all essential topics and has pictorial representations, notes enclosing important information, and nursing diagnoses that help the nurses to prioritize and carry out nursing care and procedures in an orderly fashion. This text strives to help nurses utilize their maximum potential for the holistic care of a child.

Key features

• Book abides completely by the curriculum prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council
• Content revised and adapted for the current South Asian nursing setup
• Data and statistics pertaining to the current South Asian region assimilated
• Newest concepts/topics added to reflect the regional perspectives
• Regional pictures added to provide regional look and feel
• Real-life photographs for easy identification of disease conditions
• Elaborate and detailed explanation with illustrations
Educator Resources on MedEnact
• PowerPoint® slides
• Case studies with a Next Generation NCLEX focus
• 600-question test bank
Student Resources on MedEnact
• NCLEX®-style review questions, including Next Generation NCLEX-style questions
• Case studies with a Next Generation NCLEX focus
• Answers of the Critical Thinking Case Studies Questions

Table of contents

UNIT 1 Children, Their Families and the Nurse

1 Perspectives of Pediatric Nursing

2 The Hospitalized Children

3 General Concepts Related to Pediatric Procedures
UNIT 2 Assessment of the Child and Family

4 Communication and Physical Assessment of the Child and Family

5 Pain Assessment and Management in Children

6 Preventive Pediatrics

7 The Healthy Child: Growth and Development
UNIT 3 Family-Centered Care of the Newborn

8 Nursing Care of a Normal Neonate

9 Nursing Care of a High-Risk Neonate
UNIT 4 Improving Family and Community Health Facilities

10 Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses
UNIT 5 Nursing Management of Common Childhood Disorders

11 The Child with Respiratory Dysfunction

12 The Child with Endocrine Dysfunction

13 Child Health Emergencies

14 The Child with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction

15 The Child with Cardiovascular Dysfunction

16 The Child with Hematologic or Immunologic Dysfunction

17 The Child with Genitourinary Dysfunction

18 The Child with Neurological/Cerebral Dysfunction

19 The Child with Musculoskeletal or Articular Dysfunction

20 The Child with Disorders of Skin, Eye, and Ears

21 Childhood Communicable and Infectious Diseases

22 Nursing Care of Children with HIV/AIDS/COVID-19

23 The Child with Cancer
UNIT 6 Family-Centered Care of the Child with Special Needs

24 Management of Behavioral and Social Problems in Children

25 Impact of Cognitive or Sensory Impairment on the Child and Family

26 Quality of Life for Children Living with Chronic or Complex Diseases
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 10, 2022
  • Language: English