The updated and expanded New Edition of this popular resource provides patient instruction sheets for over 130 of the most common health problems occurring in infants, children, and adolescents. A time saver for health care professionals, these detailed sheets can be easily detached, photocopied, and distributed. Includes 21 new topics. up-to-date instruction sheets that define the problem, identify its cause, suggest what caregivers can do at home to alleviate the problem, and advises when to call the physician. Increases patient compliance and reduces risk of malpractice or misunderstanding. Enables parents and other caretakers to follow instructions to the letter, saving consultation time and reducing telephone calls after hour. Provides space on instruction sheets for notes on drug therapy drug names, dosage, and frequency. Allows the physician to highlight the more crucial aspects of home treatment.

This patient education product allows physicians to share the same authoritative guidance they have come to know and trust in the main 'Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics' with their pediatric patients and families.

The new 2nd edition provides best practice guidelines written in collaboration with key home health care professionals. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, the new second edition provides a practical approach to establishing safe, medically necessary, family-centered home care for pediatric patients.

Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Second Edition is a convenient reference that presents the latest information on nutrition, growth and development, common childhood disorders, and well child care. Divided into three sections, the first includes history taking with a family seen for the first time, interval history, newborn rounding, and breastfeeding. Organized by body system and written in outline format, the second section helps readers locate information quickly. The third section explores medications used in pediatrics with common uses, availability, adverse effects, and nursing implications. In addition, the appendices offer useful growth charts, BMI, asthma guidelines, and fluoride dosing. Providing comprehensive coverage of diagnostic methods, management, and treatment modalities, Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Second Edition is the ideal resource for nurse practitioners (NP), students, and nurses starting out in practice.

This handbook presents step-by-step protocols for telephone triage and advice for over 150 pediatric symptoms and chief complaints. Written in algorithmic format, the protocols list questions the health care professional should ask the caller to assess the urgency of the problem and determine whether it requires emergency intervention, an office visit, or home care. Where appropriate, the book provides first aid and home care instructions for parents and alerts parents to complications that warrant a call back.

Comprehensive and authoritative, the Pediatric Patient Education Manual includes materials from top health care facilities across the country as well as information from professional literature. An advisory board of experts ensures its breadth and accuracy of coverage. Spanning infancy to adolescence, the manual contains a wide variety of patient education handouts and corresponding information for the practitioner. Latest update includes information on following topics: growth charts, suicide warning signs, top 10 tips for raising a child with arthritis, understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, helping your overweight child, drowning prevention tips for children ages 0-5 years and much more! For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800.