"The text utilizes a highly-readable writing style and encourages a whole-body approach -- beginning with child development and health promotion to better understand the later chapters on specific health problems. This new eleventh edition also features Next Generation NCLEX®-style case studies and questions, a new chapter covering all systems cancers, additional case studies within the nursing care plans, and updated and expanded evidence-based...

"This text aims to provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals that are associated with pharmacology, children and young people (CYP) so as to improve patient safety and outcomes. This book can help the reader to develop their skills and confidence within the scope of pharmacology related a number of care settings allowing them to recognise and respond in a compassionate way to the needs of CYP and their families. The idea of studying pharmacology...

"Many nursing curricula combine and teach maternity and pediatrics in tandem. This can be viewed as a natural fit of two content areas that belong together"--

"This textbook is primarily aimed at the field of children's nursing. It is developed to support pre-registration programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate, which leads to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a children's nurse. It also aims to meet the continuing professional development educational needs for those who continue the path of lifelong learning and those recently qualified as a children's nurse. It should...

Demonstrates, with real patients at Children's Hospital of Orange County in Calif., how to prepare patients and their families for selected medical procedures. Includes scenario-based teaching demonstrations of distraction techniques that can be used to make the procedures less upsetting and more positive for the children and their parents.

"This extensively updated and enhanced volume in the Real Nursing Skills series offers a complete foundation for competency in maternal-newborn and women's health nursing. Its interactive DVD-ROM contains 30+ comprehensive procedures and rationales demonstrated through realistic video clips, animations, illustrations, and photographs. Students review each skill's purpose, delegation, preparation, procedure, post-procedure, expected and unexpected...

This review module is a component of the Comprehensive Assessment and Review Program and is designed to be used in conjunction with content area exams. It Includes key points and critical thinking exercises (with answer keys) for nursing management for a variety of conditions.

In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith. As Luca's young nurse, Nina Vocelli, risks her career...