About this book
Davis Advantage for Pediatric Nursing: Critical Components of Nursing Care 3rd Edition PDF by Kathryn Rudd and Diane M. Kocisko is offered here as a PDF eBook. The third edition is a pediatric nursing text organized around child development, family-centered care and the nursing management of common pediatric conditions. It begins with communication, family dynamics, health promotion and growth and development from infancy through adolescence, then moves through respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, reproductive, hematologic, immunologic, musculoskeletal, dermatologic and mental-health disorders. Clinical judgment and developmental context are emphasized throughout so students can understand how the same illness may require different assessment and communication strategies depending on a child’s age and family situation. The text is especially useful for pediatric nursing coursework and preparation for child-health clinical placements.
Designed for nursing students, pediatric nursing instructors, and nurses reviewing child health, this edition provides a structured resource for understanding how a child’s age, family relationships, and health condition shape nursing priorities.
This listing is for the 3rd edition of Davis Advantage for Pediatric Nursing: Critical Components of Nursing Care. Check the title, edition, authors/editors, and other product information before ordering if you need the book for a particular course, syllabus, examination, or professional reference.
Child Health Within a Developmental Framework
Rudd and Kocisko organize pediatric nursing around the child as a developing person within a family. The third edition progresses from professional foundations to psychosocial and cultural considerations, age-specific development, and childhood illnesses. This structure gives readers a way to consider the child’s stage of development before approaching a health problem. Infancy, the preschool years, school age, and adolescence each receive attention, followed by disorders across major body systems. The scope also includes communicable disease and end-of-life care. It is a focused pediatric nursing text for readers who need to connect developmental knowledge with the circumstances of childhood illness.
Development, Families, and Childhood Illness
The 3rd edition covers the following areas:
- Pediatric nursing foundations: Issues, trends, practice standards, and ethical considerations.
- Families and communication: Family dynamics and communication with children and caregivers.
- Culture and care context: Cultural, spiritual, and environmental influences on the child.
- Development across childhood: Newborns, infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children, and adolescents.
- Infection and supportive care: Communicable diseases and end-of-life care.
- Cardiorespiratory and neurological disorders: Respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, and sensory conditions.
- Metabolic and digestive disorders: Gastrointestinal, renal, and endocrine conditions.
- Additional childhood disorders: Mental health, genetic, blood, immune, neoplastic, skin, and musculoskeletal conditions.
Linking a Child’s Development With Nursing Care
A pediatric nursing course requires learners to consider both the illness and the child experiencing it. This book’s developmental sequence supports that task: communication appropriate for an adolescent cannot simply be transferred to a toddler, and the family’s role also changes with age. Its illness coverage then gives those developmental questions a clinical context. Students preparing for pediatric placements can use the text to connect course material on childhood development with the conditions encountered in child health settings. Educators can build discussions around the same relationship, including how cultural circumstances and family dynamics affect communication during hospitalization or a transition to home care.
Who uses this book
- Prelicensure Nursing Students
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Students
- Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) Students
- Students Taking Pediatric Nursing Courses
- Nursing Students Preparing for Pediatric Clinical Placements
- Pediatric Nurses Reviewing Foundational Concepts
- Students Learning Growth and Development Across Childhood
- Pediatric Nursing Educators
- Clinical Instructors Teaching Family-Centered Child Health Care
Also suitable for other nursing trainees who need to connect pediatric illness with development, family communication, clinical judgment and age-appropriate nursing care.
Key Topics Covered
- Family-centered pediatric nursing
- Communication with children
- Family dynamics
- Cultural influences on child health
- Infant development
- Toddler and preschool development
- School-age development
- Adolescent development
- Communicable diseases
- Pediatric respiratory disorders
- Pediatric cardiovascular disorders
- Neurological and sensory disorders
- Pediatric endocrine disorders
- Childhood mental health
- Pediatric end-of-life care
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