Author : Mary Ann Chestnut
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Chronically ill children
ISBN : 9780781712033
This resource will help you meet the latest Medicare and JCAHO standards for home care agencies; refine risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; sharpen skills with step-by-step coverage of common procedures; and educate parents on well-child and preventive care. Step by step coverage includes common procedures, client-family teaching materials, and more!
Author : John Norman Morris
Publisher : interRAI Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Home care services
ISBN : 1936065002
The interRAI HC Assessment System has been designed to be a user-friendly, reliable, person-centered system that informs and guides comprehensive planning of care and services for elderly and disabled persons in community-based settings around the world. It focuses on the person's functioning and quality of life by assessing needs, strengths, and preferences. It also facilitates referrals when appropriate. When used on multiple occasions, it provides the basis for an outcome-based assessment of the person's response to care or services. The interRAI HC Assessment System can be used to assess persons with chronic needs for care, as well as with post-acute care needs (e.g., after hospitalization or in a hospital-at-home situation).
Author : Judy Trivits Verger
Publisher : W B Saunders Company
Page : 1483 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780721606408
Using detailed, step-by-step guidelines, this comprehensive book covers procedures commonly performed by all nurses in pediatric critical care. Following the successful format of the AACN Procedure Manual for Critical Care, 5th edition, this new resource focuses on the unique aspects of caring for infants and children. This easy-to-use guide includes the latest information, a strong evidence base, and a supporting rationale for each step of each procedure. Advanced Practice Skills are included throughout the text and are marked with a special AP icon indicating that these procedures should only be performed by qualified personnel. Evidence-based practice and research-based data are used to support the recommendations for each procedure. Each procedure follows a consistent, step-by-step format with rationales. Developmental differences are highlighted in special Procedure tables. This valuable, everyday resource is sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Each procedure is covered in a consistent structure: Purpose Prerequisite knowledge Child and family assessment Child and family education Equipment Procedure (with steps, rationale, and considerations) Expected and unexpected outcomes Monitoring and care of the child (with activities and interventions, rationale, and reportable conditions) Documentation
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9241548371
The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.
Author : Mary Fran Hazinski
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
"This manual developed as a condensed revision of the second edition of Nursing care of the critically ill child"--Preface.
Author : Linda Shields
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781444314632
Edited by well-known and highly-regarded children’s nurse Linda Shields, Perioperative Care of the Child is an essential resource for any children’s nurse working in a perioperative setting and all student nurses on the child branch. This timely and valuable text provides comprehensive coverage of the essential skills and knowledge required by practitioners in order to deliver safe and effective perioperative nursing care for the child requiring surgery before, during and after any operation. Perioperative Care of the Child explores the role of the nurse in a wide variety of perioperative contexts, including anaesthetics, surgical procedures (including coverage of fetal surgery, endoscopic procedures and care of children with burns), paediatric transplantation, postoperative recovery, and pre- and post-hospital care. This essential resource benefits from an international perspective, with contributions from experienced and highly-specialised clinicians from around the world. Essential reading for children’s and perioperative nurses, and others who work in the perioperative area. Evidence-based, with clear links to nursing practice. Focuses on key skills and knowledge. Emphasises patient-centred care. Edited by an internationally-regarded children’s nurse.
Author : John W. Graef
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780781771665
Thoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this practical quick-reference manual presents authoritative patient management guidelines based on the extensive clinical experience at The Children's Hospital in Boston. Coverage includes normal newborn, well-child, and adolescent care, acute care, disorders of each organ system, behavioral disorders, and management of the child with developmental disabilities and specialized health care needs. The text includes numerous easy-to-scan tables and a popular "A to Z" drug formulary.
Author : Ruth McGillis Bindler
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780132625340
"This colorful skills atlas serves as a portable, quick reference for step-by-step pediatric nursing skills. The fifth edition of this valuable manual guides you through 129 skills using full-color photographs and rationales. This atlas also includes chapters on physical assessment, special pain management techniques, cardiorespiratory care, medication administration (including intravenous access), and other information useful to nurses in the clinical pediatric setting."--Back cover.
Author : Shrishu R. Kamath
Publisher : Wolters kluwer india Pvt Ltd
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2018-06-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 938796325X
Paediatric Critical Care Manual is an useful bedside resource in the niche specialty of paediatric critical care. Primarily meant for paediatric fellows and postgraduates working predominantly in paediatric ICU, this book would be equally useful for practicing paediatricians and physicians who face sick children in their day-to-day practice. This book has the potential to give confidence and competence to any physician taking care of critically ill children, as well as the postgraduates and fellows planning to take the exit level examinations, on their way to expertise in this field.Key Features
Author : Wendy Votroubek
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0763755869
Pediatric Home Care is a practice-based text perfect for either students or for supporting pediatric nurses practicing in a home-care setting. The text includes a variety of nursing information required for this type of care across a large spectrum of physiologic categories and acuity levels. The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most current practice and technology and includes a new focus on evidence based practice.
