Pediatric Nursing

This reference work provides bullet-pointed information for pediatric nurses on disorders, treatments, procedures, diagnostic tests, and clinical tools. For each item in the section on disorders--from AIDS to Wilms' tumor--which takes up over half of the volume, information is typically provided on disorder description, pathophysiology, assessment findings, test results, treatment, key patient outcomes, nursing interventions, and patient teaching. Treatments cover description, purpose, patient preparation, procedure, and post procedure care; procedures cover description, equipment, essential steps, and nursing considerations, diagnostic tests include information on purpose, patient preparation, procedure, postprocedure care, and normal and abnormal results; and the section on clinical tools includes a variety of tables and charts on topics ranging from health and illness philosophies of different ethnic groups to eliciting infant reflexes. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)