As always, practitioners can rely on WHALEY &amp; WONG'S NURSING CARE OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN to provide accurate, thoroughly updated, comprehensive and remarkably readable information. Many popular features from the fifth edition are back along with new, timely features on topics such as community care, cultural awareness, and family-centered care. Each full color text includes a free CD-ROM with exercises to enhance critical thinking, case studies, assessment tools and more. * Includes full-color illustrations with clearly organized text * Emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness * Focuses on "wellness" and preventative measures with complete information on health promotion and injury prevention among specific age groups * Illustrates proper nursing care for major diseases and disorders using the nursing process * Integrates age appropriate patient wellness benchmarks into each chapter * Provides step-by-step instructions on performing key skills in Guidelines boxes * Provides quick references for critical situations in Emergency Treatment boxes, each highlighted with color-tabbed pages * Explains ways in which a family's beliefs may affect child care in Cultural Awareness boxes * Offers guidance on administering sensitive care with minimal pain and stress to child, family and nurse in Atraumatic Care boxes * Highlights important information to prepare families coping with special situations in Family Home Care boxes (Includes FREE CD-ROM and MERLIN websitewww.harcourthealth.com/Mosby/Wong/ncic/)

Whaley & Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children

Medical Books

Hockenberry PhD RN PPCNP-BC FAAN, Marilyn J.

Wilson MS RN C (NIC), David

Wong PhD RN PNP CPN FAAN, Donna L.

Winkelstein PhD RN, Marilyn L.

Ahmann ScD RN, Elizabeth

DiVito-Thomas MS RN, Pamela

Nursing

Mosby

Designed for shorter pediatric and maternity nursing courses, this useful textbook provides students with the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an up-to-date, easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters covering maternity nursing content and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing content. Numerous illustrations, photos, and tables help illustrate and clarify the information for the student. Many special boxes, pedagogical features, and an inviting full-color design also help make key information easy to find and review.
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<li>Expert authors ensure delivery of accurate and up-to-date maternity and pediatric content.</li>
<li>Authors' clear writing style makes content easy to read and understand.</li>
<li>Focus on the family throughout emphasizes the influence of family in health and illness.</li>
<li>Nursing Care Plans, including rationales for interventions, provide students with an overview and specific guidelines for delivering effective nursing care.</li>
<li>Nurse Alerts point out critical information that students should not overlook when treating patients.</li>
<li>Boxed information: Guideline boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow fashion; Emergency boxes highlight emergency procedures in a step-by-step format to help students understand how to perform them; Home Care boxes provide detailed information to help prepare students to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting; Atraumatic Care boxes teach students to provide competent care without creating undue physical or psychological stress to the patient; Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, providing resources and guidance to illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings; Patient Teaching boxes explore important information nurses need to pass on to families and children; Cultural Awareness boxes provide students with information to help them deliver culturally competent care.; Family Focus boxes explain the needs or concerns that families should consider when family-centered care is provided.</li>
<li>Critical Thinking Exercises provide students with case scenarios that depict real life situations to help them choose the best intervention and make good clinical judgements.</li>
<li>A free Companion CD-ROM including case studies, NCLEX review questions, care planning exercises, and nursing skills outlines. Also, included are videos of a vaginal birth, a Caesarean birth, the assessment of a pregnant woman, the assessment of a neonate, and pediatric assessment skills from infant to adolescent.</li>
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<li>Spanish-English guidelines boxes and appendix help students translate key words and phrases to better serve Spanish-speaking patients.</li>
<li>Chronic Illness, Disability, and End-of-Life Care chapter has been extensively revised to include new information on palliative and end-of-life care.</li>
<li>Evidence-Based Practice boxes focus students' attention on the application of both research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care.</li>
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Maternal Child Nursing Care

Lowdermilk RNC PhD FAAN, Deitra Leonard

Perry RN PhD FAAN, Shannon E.

Long relied on as the industry's most comprehensive, authoritative source for information on the care of pediatric patients, this respected text presents a wealth of nursing knowledge in vividly illustrated, easy-to-read chapters. Current, evidence-based practice is reflected throughout, from its emphasis on wellness to its use of the nursing process and nursing care plans. Now even more user-friendly and inviting, the updated, full-color layout and improved readability guide readers every step of the way. No other book on the subject offers more expert, practical, relevant coverage than Wong's Nursing Care of Infants &amp; Children, 8th Edition.
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<li>A focus on the family throughout emphasizes the role and influence of the family in health and illness.</li>
<li>Disorder sections provide a detailed presentation of pathophysiology to foster a clear understanding of the impact of disease on normal physiologic functions.</li>
<li>Content provides a holistic view of the child and family by integrating aspects of wellness and health such as play, safety, language, self-esteem, nutrition, dental health, sleep, exercise, and sexuality into the appropriate age chapters.</li>
<li>Nursing care plans incorporate patient- and family-centered goals, include rationales for nursing interventions, and contain NIC and NOC outcomes and interventions where appropriate.</li>
<li>Helpful boxes throughout the text draw the reader's attention to relevant topics:</li>
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<li>Guidelines boxes provide step-by-step instructions on performing specific skills and procedures.</li>
<li>Unique Emergency Treatment boxes serve as quick reference for critical situations.</li>
<li>Community Focus boxes provide additional resources and guidance on caring for children outside the clinical setting.</li>
<li>Unique Cultural Awareness boxes highlight ways in which variations in beliefs and practices affect child care.</li>
<li>Unique Atraumatic Care boxes provide guidance for administering nursing care with minimal pain or stress to the child, family, and nurse.</li>
<li>Unique Family Home Care boxes highlight important information to better prepare families to cope with their child's care in special situations.</li>
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<li>Unique critical thinking exercises challenge readers to make clinical judgments and apply knowledge to specific situations using their analytical skills.</li>
<li>Nursing Alerts and Nursing Tips are highlighted throughout the text to provide critical information or helpful hints.</li>
<li>Unique resources including phone numbers, fax numbers, and Internet sites are provided for students, children, and families.</li>
<li>CD-ROM packaged with the book features NCLEX® review questions, pediatric assessment video clips, animations, critical thinking questions, case studies, assessment tools, and more!</li>
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<li>Unique Evidence-Based Practice boxes draw attention to application of both research and critical thought processes to support and guide the outcomes of nursing care.</li>
<li>Unique Ethics Case Studies reflect the complex patient care situations nurses face in clinical practice and illustrate considerations for proper care delivery.</li>
<li>A new chapter on pain assessment and management in children draws together a wealth of information into one chapter for comprehensive coverage and easy reference.</li>
<li>Streamlined nursing process information is presented in boxes to help readers easily locate information on major diseases and conditions.</li>
<li>Updated immunization information reflects current practice.</li>
<li>A new appendix of Spanish translations contains words and phrases commonly used in nurse-parent interactions.</li>
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Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children

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This money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children 8th edition text and an electronic version of the textbook that allows students to search, highlight information, take notes, share notes and more. This package makes it simple for students to make the most of their study time and get more use out of their textbooks!

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Study Guide for Maternal Child Nursing Care

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