Family - Assorted Topics, Nursing, Infants & Toddlers
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Overview
Kyle/2E promotes confidence in pediatric nursing by growing and developing students’ understanding of child and family care. Building on foundational concepts of adult nursing, students learn techniques of atraumatic care and patient teaching, and methods of communicating with children and their families. An emphasis is placed on defining the differences between adult care and pediatric care to increase the student’s level of comfort with this specific patient type.Many features to enhance student understanding of pediatric nursing including:- Clear organization to encourage students to build on foundational nursing knowledge
- Unique design to appeal to multiple learning styles
- NEW! Atraumatic Care Highlights throughout and a complete chapter on atraumatic care assist students in reducing patient and family stress in the healthcare setting
- NEW! Evidence-Based Practice boxes show current research to support pediatric nursing topics, giving students real-world evidence to assist in understanding
- NEW! Thinking About Development features encourage students to think critically about special developmental concerns relating to the topic being discussed.
- NEW! Healthy People 2020 objectives have been included to provide current industry information
- Integrated Case Studies are threaded throughout chapters with real-life scenarios that present relevant child and family information that is intended to perfect the student’s caregiving skills
- Comparison Charts compare two or more disorders or other easily confused concepts, to provide explanations and clarification for students
- Nursing Care Plans provide concrete examples of each step of the nursing process
- Step-by-Step Procedures provide a clear explanation of pediatric variations to facilitate competent performance
This primary "essentials textbook" is intended specifically as the course text for the standard, increasingly shortened Pediatrics course in Associate Degree programs. The book covers those topics of importance that are addressed in ADN programs without providing the unnecessary detail that is seen in virtually all essentials pediatrics texts on the market today. A companion text by Susan Scott-Ricci--Essential Textbook of Women's Care, Newborn Care, and Women's Health Nursing--can serve as the text for the Maternity course in ADN programs.
Synopsis
Kyle/2E promotes confidence in pediatric nursing by growing and developing students' understanding of child and family care. Building on foundational concepts of adult nursing, students learn techniques of atraumatic care and patient teaching, and methods of communicating with children and their families. An emphasis is placed on defining the differences between adult care and pediatric care to increase the student's level of comfort with this specific patient type. Many features to enhance student understanding of pediatric nursing including: Clear organization to encourage students to build on foundational nursing knowledge Unique design to appeal to multiple learning styles NEW! Atraumatic Care Highlights throughout and a complete chapter on atraumatic care assist students in reducing patient and family stress in the healthcare setting NEW! Evidence-Based Practice boxes show current research to support pediatric nursing topics, giving students real-world evidence to assist in understanding NEW! Thinking About Development features encourage students to think critically about special developmental concerns relating to the topic being discussed. NEW! Healthy People 2020 objectives have been included to provide current industry information Integrated Case Studies are threaded throughout chapters with real-life scenarios that present relevant child and family information that is intended to perfect the student's caregiving skills Comparison Charts compare two or more disorders or other easily confused concepts, to provide explanations and clarification for students Nursing Care Plans provide concrete examples of each step of the nursing process Step-by-Step Procedures provide a clear explanation of pediatric variations to facilitate competent performanceEditorials
From The Critics
Reviewer:Nicole M. Roehrig, BSN(University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center)Description:This pediatric nursing textbook provides a wide variety of basic knowledge and skills necessary for different pediatric healthcare settings, diseases, disorders, and nursing practices. The book is organized and comprehensive, and offers appropriate and applicable illustrations to strengthen concept absorption.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide readers with basic nursing knowledge and information on children and their healthcare issues. The learning objectives that are clearly posted at the beginning of each chapter are explained throughout the book. The book addresses the objectives in each unit and connects the concepts throughout the chapters.
Audience:Novice students and nurses are the targeted audience, but the book offers a wide variety of information that can be useful to any practitioners in pediatric settings. For example, those who practice or are interested in the outpatient setting can easily find supportive data on those issues that are more focused on inpatient settings. The editor has extensive pediatric experience and has gathered many colleagues to contribute.
Features:From the well child to the dying child, from outpatient to inpatient, the fundamentals are addressed. The book covers important key issues in today's nursing practice such as evidence-based practice and family centered care. Both concepts are being implemented in practices all over the world, and it is important nursing students are exposed to them early in a basic nursing textbook. The book includes colorful and helpful illustrations and appendixes such as the growth charts, ECG strips, and the Denver II development assessment. Helpful visuals supporting the text are integrated throughout. Many students are visual learners and illustrations help to connect the written material to actual situations. One helpful feature that is missing is a glossary.
Assessment:This textbook provides readers with information and concepts applicable in different pediatric healthcare settings. Basic definitions are provided along with the nurse's role in the specific care of children and their families. Different learning/teaching strategies, incorporating illustrations, case studies, quizzes, and critical thinking exercises engage readers.
Book Details
Published
January 31, 2012
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pages
1264
Format
Multimedia Set
ISBN
9781605470283