Pediatric Nursing Procedures provides the student and professional nurse with a quick reference to essential nursing procedures and standards for practice. Its format is easily adaptable to organizational policy and procedure manuals.

Contents

Caring For Children: Special Considerations in Healthcare

1. Principles of Family-Centered Care
2. Growth and Development Milestones
3. Teaching Children and Their Families
4. Promoting Coping During Hospitalization
5. Principles of Fluid and Nutritional Management
6. Principles of Pharmacologic Management
7. Principles of Pain Management

Pediatric Guidelines and Procedures

8. Abdominal Girth
9. Admission of the Child
10. Admission of the Child to the Intensive Care Unit
11. Advance Directives
12. Aerosol Treatments
13. Apnea Monitors
14. Bathing the Infant
15. Bed and Crib Choices
16. Blood Drawing From Peripheral Sites: Heel Stick and Finger Stick
17. Blood Drawing From Peripheral Sites: Venipuncture
18. Blood Gas Sampling and Monitoring
19. Blood Glucose Monitoring
20. Blood Product Administration
21. Bone Marrow Aspiration
22. Breast Milk: Handling and Storage of Expressed Human Milk
23. Cardiopulmonary Monitoring
24. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
25. Cast Care

also Chapters 26-136

Index

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