Delmar’s Pediatric Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition, provides detailed information on developing care plans for children with health alterations. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive, individualized nursing care plans based on solid, scientific knowledge. Care plans solicit specific client data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions and evaluate the child’s individual responses. Interventions and outcomes are suggested to keep parents informed of and involved in their child’s care.

Features:

• An introductory chapter provides an overview of how to customize a care plan to meet the needs of a specific client
• Focus on health promotion, restoration, disease prevention, and understanding children as clients who are distinct from adults
• Body-system organization allows readers to quickly access desired content areas; brief system overviews outline growth and development and normal system function
• Up-to-date North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) diagnoses are used throughout
• Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC) have been added to encourage users to tie care plans into established standards and to ensure that users base their work on the most current research
• Important relationships are presented in flowcharts to give users visual cues and to improve understanding of the basis for care
• A multimedia CD at the back of the book is fully interactive and customizable, and it gives users flexible tools to create and build individualized care plans