Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing

This guide to assessment, health promotion, and care of children during illness, hospitalization, and at home, provides complete assessment guidelines for children of all ages. It contains 80 nursing care plans for general and specific health problems, and 25 home care instructions. Information is provided on paediatric vital signs, and there are also conversion tables for quick retrieval. This edition includes: new screening and assessment tools; and the latest guidelines for children on topics such as preventive paediatric health care, immunizations, and safety; updated home care instructions, including new CPR guidelines and vital signs protocols; new atraumatic care boxes, and new practice alerts.