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Undergraduate nursing students need a succinct and accessible way into the pediatric nursing environment. The recently published Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach by Luanne Linnard-Palmer does just that.

Topics: Pediatric Nursing

Have you been looking for a succinct, accessible, and practical guide to pediatric nursing? We just published Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach from experienced pediatric nurse and clinician, Luanne Linnard-Palmer. Using a core framework built around the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies and family-centered care model, the text offers need-to-know content for safe and effective practices across a variety of settings and within interdisciplinary teams.

Topics: QSEN, New Text, nursing, Pediatric Nursing

Outstanding news to share-- Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Third Edition by Beth Richardson just received a 4 star review. Writing for Doody's Review Service, Jessica S. Bahorski, MSN, RN, PPCNP-BC, from Florida State University College of Medicine calls it,

“…a wonderful resource for advanced practice nurses or other healthcare providers working in this setting. The outline format provides quick and easy access to the information.”

Topics: Doody's Review Service, nursing, Review, Pediatric Nursing, Beth Richardson, pediatric primary care

Have you been searching for a user-friendly, comprehensive guide that provides an overview of the clinical situations nurses will encounter while caring for pediatric patients? We just published Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Third Edition by Beth Richardson.

Written for advanced practice primary care nursing students for use in clinical courses, it is organized in outline format so that students can quickly find relevant information. The Third Edition covers well-child care from newborn through adolescence, including appropriate anticipatory guidance for each age group. It also includes common illnesses in each body system with differentials and treatment plans written by pediatric nurse practitioners with expertise in each specialty area.

Topics: New Edition, nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Beth Richardson, pediatric primary care

Are you looking for an up-to-date, trusted, and easy-to-use quick reference for the care of a pediatric patient? The just published Pediatric Anesthesia and Emergency Drug Guide, Second Edition by Lynn Fitzgerald Macksey can help.

Covering nearly every drug given in the perioperative care of a child, it provides calculations down to the milligram to give the best dose per gram/kilogram weight for both perioperative and emergency drugs. Completely updated and revised, this new edition discusses and lists the dose range of each anesthetic drug, antibiotic, continuous IV drug infusions, local anesthetics, and epidural/caudal pediatric guidelines.

Pediatric Anesthesia and Emergency Drug Guide, Second Edition also includes two separate sections on Neonates and Pediatrics with detailed information on diseases, emergencies, and their anesthetic implications, including “pearls of information” for systemic differences between the two age groups affecting their care, such as volume status, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, hepatic, and temperature considerations.

New to the Second Edition:

• Updated dosages to meet current standards
• New antibiotics include ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, ertapenem, levofloxacin, metronidazole, Unasyn, and Zosyn
• New drugs include rectal doses of Tylenol and IV Tylenol (Ofirmev), hydromorphone, remifentanil, and sufentanil

Can't wait to learn more? Visit our website.

Topics: New Edition, nursing, nurse anesthetist, Pediatric Anesthesia and Emergency Drug Guide, Pediatric Nursing, Lynn Fitzgerald Macksey

Pediatric Acute Care: A Guide for Interprofessional Practice by Karin Reuter-Rice and Beth Bolick is now available as a CourseSmart eBook.

Topics: Karin Reuter-Rice, Pediatric Nursing, Beth Bolick

Doody's Review Service recently reviewed Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient, Third Edition by Nancy Tkacz Browne, Laura M. Flanigan, Carmel A. McComiskey, and Pam Pieper. According to reviewer Robert M Arensman, MD at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine,

Topics: Doody's Review Service, Review, Laura M. Flanigan, Nancy Tkacz Browne, Pediatric Nursing, pediatric surgery, American Pediatric Surgical Nurse’s Association, APSNA, Carmel A. McComiskey, Pam Piepe, surgical nurse

We are happy to announce the publication of Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient, Third Edition by Nancy Tkacz Browne, Laura M. Flanigan, Carmel A. McComiskey, and Pam Pieper. Published in partnership with American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association (APSNA), it is the must-have resource for all healthcare providers involved in the care of the general pediatric surgical patient.

Topics: New Edition, Laura M. Flanigan, Nancy Tkacz Browne, Pediatric Nursing, pediatric surgery, American Pediatric Surgical Nurse’s Association, APSNA, Carmel A. McComiskey, Pam Pieper, Recently Published, surgical nurse

Pediatric Physical Examination & Health Assessment by Susan S. Sawyer is now available as a CourseSmart eBook.

Topics: pediatric nurse practitioner, Pediatric Nursing, pedatric nurses, pediatric examination, Susan S. Sawyer

Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses, Second Edition

Beth Richardson, PhD, RN, CPNP, School of Nursing, Indiana University

ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-0043-3 | Spiral | 700 pages | © 2013

Qualified Instructors: Request Your Review Copy Today!  Or Buy Your Copy Now!

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.

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