Pediatric Nursing: A Case-Based Approach

Description

Develop the clinical judgment and critical thinking skills needed to excel in pediatric nursing with this innovative, case-based text. Pediatric Nursing: A Case-Based Approach brings the realities of practice to life and helps you master essential information on growth and development, body systems, and pharmacologic therapy as you apply your understanding to fictional scenarios based on real clinical cases throughout the pediatric nursing experience. Accompanying units leverage these patient stories to enrich your understanding of key concepts and reinforce their clinical relevance, giving you unparalleled preparation for the challenges you’ll face in your nursing career.

• Powerfully written case-based patient scenarios instill a clinically relevant understanding of essential concepts to prepare you for clinicals.
• Nurse’s Point of View sections in Unit 1 help you recognize the nursing considerations and challenges related to patient-based scenarios.
• Unfolding Patient Stories, written by the National League for Nursing, foster meaningful reflection on commonly encountered clinical scenarios.
• Let’s Compare boxes outline the differences between adult and pediatric anatomy and physiology.
• Growth and Development Check features alert you to age and developmental stage considerations for nursing care.
• The Pharmacy sections organize medications by problem for convenient reference.
• Whose Job is it Anyway? features reinforce the individual responsibilities of different members of the healthcare team.
• Analyze the Evidence boxes compare conflicting research findings to strengthen your clinical judgment capabilities.
• How Much Does It Hurt? boxes clarify the principles of pediatric pain relevant to specific problems.
• Hospital Help sections alert you to specific considerations for the hospitalization of pediatric patients.
• Priority Care Concepts help you confidently assess patients and prioritize care appropriately.
• Patient Teaching boxes guide you through effective patient and parent education approaches.
• Patient Safety alerts help you quickly recognize and address potential safety concerns.
• Interactive learning resources, including Practice & Learn Case Studies and Watch & Learn Videos, reinforce skills and challenge you to apply what you have learned.
• Learning Objectives and bolded Key Terms help you maximize your study time.
• Think Critically questions instill the clinical reasoning and analytical skills essential to safe patient-centered practice.
• Suggested Readings point you to further research for more information and clinical guidance.

Key Features

• Chapter-length Clinical Scenarios make up Unit 1, as mentioned in the preface. Each of the 14 scenarios in Unit 1 presents the story of a different pediatric patient with one or several conditions related to a given body system, told from the point of view of the patient’s parent (or, for a few of the older patients, from the patient’s point of view). Together, the cases cover patients of a diverse range of ages, levels of growth and development, backgrounds, and conditions and body systems involved, as well as a variety of aspects of pediatric nursing assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
• Unfolding Patient Stories, written by the National League for Nursing, are an engaging way to begin meaningful conversations in the classroom. These vignettes, which appear at the end of the first chapter in each unit, feature patients from Wolters Kluwer’s vSim for Nursing Pediatric (co-developed by Laerdal Medical) and DocuCare products; however, each Unfolding Patient Story in the book stands alone, not requiring purchase of these products.
• The Nurse’s Point of View feature in Unit 1 changes the narrator from the patient or the patient’s parent to a knowledgeable nurse preceptor, who picks up the story from the nursing perspective, including information about how and why particular aspects of care are provided to a character.
• Learning Objectives state clear and concise learning goals for each chapter.
• Key Terms are listed at the beginning of each chapter, boldfaced on first use in the chapter text, and included in a glossary at the back of the book.
• Growth and Development Check features throughout the book alert students to the importance of a child’s age and developmental stage when using clinical judgment and implementing plans of care.
• How Much Does It Hurt? boxes incorporate principles of pediatric pain management.
• Patient Safety reminders, as well as important signs and symptoms to which the nurse needs to pay attention, are highlighted as appropriate throughout the book.
• Let’s Compare boxes throughout the book differentiate between adult and pediatric anatomy, physiology, and assessment techniques.
• Priority Care Concepts provide a quick overview of prioritization of care for pediatric patients.
• Whose Job Is It, Anyway? sections underscore roles of different members of the healthcare team.
• Hospital Help boxes give tips for promoting the continued growth and development of children while they are in the hospital by addressing the unique needs and challenges of each stage.
• Analyze the Evidence compares sometimes conflicting and contradictory research that supports or challenges current pediatric nursing practice.
• Patient Teaching includes important points nurses must cover with patients and their family to effectively educate them.
• The Pharmacy provides must-know pharmaceutical information, including, where appropriate, drug classification, route of administration, action, and nursing considerations.
• In addition to the special boxes mentioned in this section, Interactive Learning Tools available online enrich learning and are identified with icons in the text:
  • Practice & Learn Case Studies present case scenarios and offer interactive exercises and questions to help students apply what they have learned.
  • Watch & Learn Video Clips reinforce skills from the textbook and appeal to visual and auditory learners.
• Think Critically offers short, often multipart questions requiring students to synthesize information found in the chapter. Suggested answers are available to instructors at http://thepoint.lww.com/Tagher1e.
• References cited are listed at the end of each chapter and include updated, current sources.
• Suggested Readings include current evidence-based resources related to the key topics discussed in the chapter so that students can expand and deepen their understanding of the content.

Table of Contents

1. Unit 1: Scenarios for Clinical Preparation
   1. Chapter 1: Chip Jones: Bronchiolitis
   2. Chapter 2: Mollie Sanders: Asthma
   3. Chapter 3: David Torres: Ulnar Fracture
   4. Chapter 4: Ellie Raymore: Urinary Tract Infection and Pyelonephritis
   5. Chapter 5: Maalik Abdella: Gastroenteritis, Fever, and Dehydration
   6. Chapter 6: Abigail Hanson: Leukemia
   7. Chapter 7: Caleb Yoder: Heart Failure
   8. Chapter 8: Andrew Hocktochee: Failure to Thrive
   9. Chapter 9: Jessica Wang: Tonic-Clonic Seizures
   10. Chapter 10: Sophia Carter: Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
   11. Chapter 11: Chase McGovern: Second-Degree Burns
   12. Chapter 12: Natasha Austin: Sickle Cell Anemia
   13. Chapter 13: Jack Wray: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
   14. Chapter 14: Adelaide Wilson: Obesity
2. Unit 2: Care of the Developing Child
   1. Chapter 15: Care of the Newborn and Infant
   2. Chapter 16: Care of the Toddler
   3. Chapter 17: Care of the Preschooler
   4. Chapter 18: Care of the School-Age Child
   5. Chapter 19: Care of the Adolescent
3. Unit 3: Care of the Hospitalized Child
   1. Chapter 20: Alterations in Respiratory Function
   2. Chapter 21: Alterations in Cardiac Function
   3. Chapter 22: Alterations in Neurological and Sensory Function
   4. Chapter 23: Alterations in Gastrointestinal Function
   5. Chapter 24: Alterations in Genitourinary Function
   6. Chapter 25: Alterations in Hematological Function
   7. Chapter 26: Oncological Disorders
   8. Chapter 27: Alterations in Musculoskeletal Function
   9. Chapter 28: Alterations in Neuromuscular Function
   10. Chapter 29: Alterations in Integumentary Function
   11. Chapter 30: Alterations in Immune Function
   12. Chapter 31: Alterations in Endocrine Function
   13. Chapter 32: Genetic Disorders
   14. Chapter 33: Alterations in Cognition and Mental Health
   15. Chapter 34: Pediatric Emergencies

Authors Biography

Gannon Taghe

Lisa Knapp