Assessment. Health history -- Physical assessment -- Family assessment -- Assessment of treatment -- Nutritional assessment -- Sleep assessment -- Growth measurements -- Assessment of development -- Assessment of language and speech -- Assessment of vision -- Assessment of hearing -- Summary of growth and development. Health promotion. Recommendations for child preventive care, nutrition -- Immunizations -- Safety and injury prevention -- Parental guidance -- Play. Pediatric variations of nursing, interventions. Guidelines for preparing children for procedures -- Play during hospitalization -- Informed consent to treat child -- General hygiene and care -- Procedures related to maintaining safety -- Positioning for procedures -- Collection of specimens -- Procedures related to administration of medications -- Procedures related to maintaining fluid balance or nutrition -- Procedures related to maintaining cardiorespiratory function. Nursing care plans. The process of nursing infants and children -- Nursing care of the child and family during stress and illness -- Nursing care of common problems of ill and hospitalized children -- Nursing care of the newborn -- Nursing care of the child with respiratory dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with gastrointestional dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with cardiovascular dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with hematologic/immunologic dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with renal dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with neurologic dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with metabolic dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with cancer -- Nursing care of the child with musculoskeletal dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with sensory or cognitive impairment -- Nursing care of the child with a communicable and/or skin disease -- Nursing care of the child with psychophysiologic dysfunction -- Nursing care of the child with poisoning. Community and home care instructions. Preparing the family for community and home care -- How to use the CHCI -- Instructions related to hygiene and care -- Instructions related to administration of medications -- Instructions related to alternative feeding techniques and elimination -- Instructions related to maintaining respiratory function. Reference data. Abbreviations used in laboratory tests -- Prefixes denoting decimal factors -- Common laboratory tests -- Selected resources on pediatric pain -- Abbreviations and acronyms.
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