Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Pediatric Assessment (Nursing Pocket Guides)

Enhance Your Pediatric Assessment Skills with Mosby’s Pocket Guide

A Comprehensive Approach to Pediatric Health Assessment

Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Pediatric Assessment is a concise yet comprehensive resource that offers a practical approach to health assessment for pediatric clients. This invaluable guide begins with a thorough description of history taking, including approaches to children at various ages, nutritional assessment, and measurement and evaluation of vital signs.

Extensive Coverage of Pediatric Assessment

The guide provides “how-to” information on assessing each body system, taking into account psychosocial, anatomical, and physiological development variations. It also covers normal and abnormal findings, making it an ideal reference for nurses and students dealing with pediatric patients.

Convenient and Practical Features

This pocket guide is designed for clinical practicality, featuring:

• A concise, portable size that makes it easy to use in clinical settings
• An outline format for quick reference
• Inclusion of both psychosocial and physical aspects of assessment within a developmental framework
• Body system organization that facilitates easy retrieval of information
• Highlighted clinical alerts that call attention to potentially serious findings
• Up-to-date growth charts for birth through age 18

Updated and Revised Content

This extensively revised edition reflects the latest trends in pediatric nursing, including:

• A new chapter on assessment of mental health, covering growing areas of concern such as school phobia, ADHD, depression, suicide, anxiety, and schizophrenia
• New tables providing quick reference to common childhood symptoms (e.g., fever, diarrhea, vomiting)
• Updated coverage of immunizations (U.S. and Canada), including information on relevance and normal timing of immunizations, as well as the most current published tables
• Updated nursing diagnoses throughout the guide

With its comprehensive approach, extensive coverage, and convenient features, Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Pediatric Assessment is an indispensable resource for nurses, students, and healthcare professionals working with pediatric patients.

About the Author: Joyce K. Engel, PhD, RN, MEd, is the Dean of Students at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.

Book Details:

• Series: Nursing Pocket Guides
• Publisher: Mosby
• Edition: 5
• Pages: 496
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323044123
• ISBN-13: 978-0323044127
• eText ISBN: 9780323167963, 9780323059732