Updated in an all new 3rd edition, Pediatric Care Plans for the Hospitalized Child is an essential guide to preparing individualized care plans tailored to meet the special needs of the non-critical, hospitalized child. This book provides a quick reference for correlating pediatric medical diagnoses with nursing diagnoses, and will serve as a valuable tool in the clinical setting. A unique thirteen-part format provides care plans that are organized by medical diagnoses with six corresponding nursing diagnoses for each medical diagnosis. In this new edition all of the nursing care plans are situated in tables instead of text, making it much easier for the reader to understand and access.
• New table format for Nursing Care Plans provide easy access
• Specific individualized teaching goals and expected outcomes
• Guides students in the “how to” of writing reasonable goals–for both nursing interventions and patient goals–that can be readily measured, include developmental data, and allow for easy evaluation.
• Concise coverage of pathophysiology and how it affects various body systems in children
• Provides students and nurses with an overview of each disease and how it affects various body systems
• Related Nursing Diagnoses follows each Care Plan
• Care Plans for clients with diverse psychological needs such as emotional/physical abuse
• Helps students and nurses tailor plans for the diverse psychological needs of the emotionally/physically abused child or the physically traumatized child.