Quick Reference to Pediatric Emergency Nursing

Winner of the 1991 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, this is an authoritative, convenient reference that provides easy access to information to help nurses make critical decisions when caring for the pediatric patient. It addresses the anatomical, physiological, and emotional differences between children and adults, and includes triage guidelines in each chaptersigns, symptoms, and questions to ask in making triage decisions; examples of conditions that are considered urgent, emergent, or nonurgent; guidelines for handling parent advice calls; plus nursing diagnosis at the end of each chapter.

Initial assessment; assessment/management of cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic problems; trauma; poisoning.