Pediatric Practice Guidelines

Focusing on common pediatric conditions seen in primary care settings, this text provides novice, expert, and student nurse practitioners with increased knowledge on the most up to date recommendations about common childhood diseases and conditions. Health promotion and maintenance, child development, and family-centered care are consistently featured in each chapter, emphasizing the need to holistically care for a child based on their specific background and condition. Growth and developmental concepts are grounded in evidence-based research to help practitioners appreciate the physiologic and cognitive differences in children along with diverse community and cultural aspects of care.

User-friendly information is consistently organized in outline/bulleted format to facilitate speedy access to vital knowledge. Organized by body system, each chapter provides the reader with useful information such as the etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, physical findings, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and complications, and family education. Case scenarios explore each topic further and include questions and answers that help the clinician choose the best intervention for the patient and their family.

Key Features:
• Delivers comprehensive, evidence-based practice pediatric guidelines for experienced and novice clinicians
• Stresses the importance of the nurse's role in pediatric health promotion
• Written in outline/bulleted format for speedy access to key information
• Contains abundant case studies and related Q&As to determine the best intervention
• Includes a full-color image bank of dermatological conditions

Mikki Meadows-Oliver, PhD, PNP-BC, FAAN, is a Clinical Professor at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She has been a pediatric nurse since 1994 and a pediatric nurse practitioner since 1998. She has practiced in a variety of pediatric outpatient settings including a pediatric primary care center, a specialty program for children with lead poisoning and in school based health center settings. Dr. Meadows-Oliver has taught nursing students at a variety of educational levels including traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs, registered nurse (RN) to BSN programs, accelerated BSN programs, as well as in nurse practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs. Her areas of scholarly interest include issues that disproportionately affect children and families living in low-income inner city areas such as lead poisoning, asthma and adolescent parenthood.

Nancy Cantey Banasiak, DNP, APRN, PPCNP-BC, is an Associate Professor in the Pediatric Nursing Practitioner Specialty at Yale University School of Nursing. She has been a faculty member at Yale since 1998 and practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital Primary Care Center with a focus on caring for children with asthma. She holds her MSN and DNP degrees from Catholic University of America.

Currently, Nancy is involved in clinical research to improve care of pediatric patients with asthma across all services within the ambulatory clinics by imbedding an integrated care model into the EMRs decision support system to deliver evidence-based care across the health system, decrease variation and standardize care, improve patient outcomes and experience, and reduce cost. She is also involved in researching the importance of sleep on children and their families.