Broadribb's Introductory Pediatric Nursing (p)

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Reviewer: Marilyn Brady, PhD, RN(Trident Technical College)
Description: This is the 5th edition of a basic pediatric textbook organized according to developmental stages.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to introduce the beginning nursing student to the topics essential for the care of children and their families. The book is designed to be both readable and user-friendly.
Audience: This book is written for nursing students in practical nursing programs. The book could be used in other basic programs for an introductory course.
Features: This is a user-friendly, readable text with clearly identified features. The diagrams and updated photos throughout the book support the text. Students are taken through the nursing process from assessment to evaluation of goals and outcome criteria for a variety of health problems. In addition, the book focuses on communication and includes personal glimpses that describe the impact of different health problems on the family. A comprehensive glossary is a useful resource for the beginning student.
Assessment: This is a timely update of a previous edition of the book. The book offers a basic, comprehensive overview of topics related to the nursing care of children at a level appropriate for the practical nursing student. The text is organized according to developmental stages. Although this is a common organizational framework, the attempt to keep similar health problems together results in the inaccurate placement of some content.

Marilyn Brady

This is the 5th edition of a basic pediatric textbook organized according to developmental stages. The purpose of this book is to introduce the beginning nursing student to the topics essential for the care of children and their families. The book is designed to be both readable and user-friendly. This book is written for nursing students in practical nursing programs. The book could be used in other basic programs for an introductory course. This is a user-friendly, readable text with clearly identified features. The diagrams and updated photos throughout the book support the text. Students are taken through the nursing process from assessment to evaluation of goals and outcome criteria for a variety of health problems. In addition, the book focuses on communication and includes personal glimpses that describe the impact of different health problems on the family. A comprehensive glossary is a useful resource for the beginning student. This is a timely update of a previous edition of the book. The book offers a basic, comprehensive overview of topics related to the nursing care of children at a level appropriate for the practical nursing student. The text is organized according to developmental stages. Although this is a common organizational framework, the attempt to keep similar health problems together results in the inaccurate placement of some content.

Booknews

Uses a growth-and-development framework to address health promotion and common health problems in children. Nursing Process sections, designed to provide students with a foundation from which nursing care plans can be developed, contain nursing assessments, diagnoses, outcome identification and planning, implementations, and outcome criteria. Nursing Care Plans provide students with a model to follow in developing specific plans. New chapters cover the family and child, and care of the ill child, the hospitalized child, and the child in the community. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

3 Stars from Doody