Nursing Care of the Patient with Burns

Designed to meet the needs of primary health care providers, this book uses a case management approach to organize coverage of 25 chronic childhood illnesses. Coverage includes discussion of incidence and etiology as well as special family concerns for conditions such as AIDS, asthma, sickle cell disease, and learning disability. The book includes guidelines for assessing growth and developmental milestones in children who are developmentally delayed, and medication effects and drug interactions are described for the child on long-term drug therapy.