Management Guidelines for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

-- Discusses 176 disorders commonly seen in children and adolescents-- Addresses both the medical aspects of the disorders and the nursing concerns and patient education-- Reviews growth and development stages of the healthy child-- Discusses various approaches for assessing the client and obtaining all essential information in a timely fashion-- Contains for each monograph definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references-- Many monographs followed by a diagnostic decision tree to illustrate diagnostic or treatment reasoning-- Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach-- Each disorder chapter contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment