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Therapists and caregivers always are looking for new techniques for use with children with special needs. Typically, there are concerns with what are the benefits of massage, how to position the child, which strokes to start with on a child, what conditions promote massage, and what is the latest research on massage. Kathy Drehobl and Mary Fuhr address these concerns in "Pediatric Massage-Revised." They provide a holistic approach to massage for children with special needs. Massage offers many benefits to children with special needs. These include: enhancing parent/child attachment and bonding; increasing parental confidence; deepening respiration; improving blood and lymphatic circulation; enhancing awareness of body parts through visual, tactile, and proprioceptive input; reducing hypersensitivity to tactile input; increasing the quality and quantity of phonation and vocalization; enhancing gastrointestinal function; and providing general relaxation for the caregiver and child. ... Read more

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A great book on a great concept
This book is a must for anyone who has children or works with children in a therapy setting. I have practiced the concepts presented in this book on my own child and have noticed wonderful results. Pediatric massage is a great way to bond with your child and provide a valuable therapy session at the same time. The authors are knowlegable about pediatric massage and present the concepts in a way that makes them easy to apply. The book is well written with simple, yet informative illustrations. If you are a parent of a child with special needs, please get this book for yourself and recommend it to your child's therapist. You will be glad that you did. ... Read more

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Love this Book!
I have to agree with the last review.....This book is excellant.
The Nclex Type questions that are on the CD are very useful/beneficial. This book/CD helped me pass my pediatric exams....I would also recommend the maternal book as well.

Great book to have during nursing school.
This is a great book to have during your pediatric rotation...It really breaks down the hard material and makes it so much easier to understand. It helped me get through nursing level II. The CD has Nclex type questions which are also very helpful. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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This new third edition covers conditions seen in the primary care of children, emphasizing prevention as well as management of problems from the nurse practitioner perspective. It begins with an overview of the status of children in the United States and a review of developmental theory, followed by guidelines on how to assess children and families. A significant portion of the text is devoted to issues of daily living that are a part of every child's growth and issues that could lead to health problems (nutrition, toilet training) unless appropriate guidance is given. Disease processes often encountered by the pediatric primary provider are addressed through discussions of assessment, differential diagnosis, management, and prevention. ... Read more

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Fabulous for the PNP
A great resource text for the PNP. I use this book all the time. Great for students too. Includes everything you need regarding Peds primary care.

Nobody knows it better !
Great resource and handbook for the emergency room. When it is emergent, you need an answer fast. This is the book to find it. I can highly recommend it. ... Read more

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A great book for certification review
This was the book that helped me the most during my review for the neonatal nursing certification exam.

The "Bible" of Neonatal Assessment
This text is complete, extending to family issues as well as the neonate. An invaluable resource in the NICU, or on the shelf of a neonatal provider. Ms Kenner and her associates have produced a life's work of priceless reference! ... Read more

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This unique text is intended for staff nurses and educators who care for children in emergency departments. It serves as the foundation for pediatric emergency nursing practice. ... Read more

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Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This pocket guide is an ideal resource providing vital information to guide maternal-newborn nurses from pregnancy to the postpartum and newborn stages.It features drug guides, procedures, and common abbreviations for terminology.For student nurses gaining clinical experience. ... Read more

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This user-friendly text enables nurses to recognise, rationalise and remedy the common problems using both a multi-systems and evidence based approach. ... Read more

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Features Include: The normal function and developmental biology of organ systems
* Symptom-based diagnostic approaches for common disorders
* Effective, easy-to-use algorithms throughout to guide diagnoses
* The latest emergency and critical care management guidelines
* A family-centered approach to caring for terminally ill children and their families
* How to effectively care for children with chronic disabilities
* Expanded coverage of genetics
* What you should know about managing neonatal disorders
* New advances in orthopedics and sports medicine
* A full-color insert of childhood skin conditions, and much more

Including:
* New sections, new chapters inform on the hottest topics in the field!
* Emergency and critical care - easy-to-use section guides your management of the acutely ill infant and child
* Contemporary diagnostic techniques - provides simple, clear explanations of the new generation of laboratory tests that are more frequently used to guide clinical diagnosis
* Care of the terminally ill child - presents a family-centered approach for care near the end of life
* Rehabilitative medicine - offers guidance on caring for the increasing numbers of children with chronic disabilities

Delivers MORE of what you really need to know!
* MORE on genetics, with separate chapters focused on metabolic disorders and dysmorphology
* MORE on rheumatic disease in children and adolescents, including the critical evaluation of musculoskeletal pain and pain syndromes
* MORE on managing neonatal disorders
* MORE algorithmic approaches to common pediatric symptoms, with guidelines for initial management
* MORE information on support groups and other resources - websites and email addressesprovided throughout

PLUS:Expanded coverage in rapidly advancing areas of pediatric medicine!
* Neonatology
* Immunology and allergy
* Infectious diseases
* Orthopedics, including sports medicine
* Endocrinology ... Read more

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Good peds text
This book covers a broad field in a concise, practical way. It is short enough to be read while on a rotation but long enough to cover the basics. I had a difficult time finding a peds text that I liked, and this is the best for a summary.

Rudolph's Fundamentals of Pediatrics
i would easily rate this book as better than nelsons essentials of pediatrics and even current pediatrics.It is very readable and can actually hook u to it.Excellent charts and tables.Very good chapter on infectious diseases,and makes nephrology simpler to understand.A lot of algorithms and workups for common symptoms.Definitely recquires time commitment but the returns are more than worth it.The best book for the core rotation.I reccomend it to every student fron Hacettepe university ... Read more

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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification Review explores every area covered on the PNP certification examinations. The largest portion of the book reviews common presenting symptoms and problems; other sections discuss health promotion and well child care, pediatric emergencies, research concepts, quality assurance, and issues and trends. Each topical area includes a content review followed by a number of questions and answers.A free CD that covers a practice exam of 200 questions will accompany the book. ... Read more

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pnp review
I think this is a helpful guide, although some of the rationales for the answers were not always clear and could be interpreted very differently. There were also some contradictions and typo os that I found. One specifically states on one page that keflex may not be given to any child under one month, then in an answer to a question in the same chapter state you may give keflex to a 3 week old. I would like to contact the authors or editors to alert them to at least 10 errors I found.

Fox&Gilman's PNP Certification Review Book
Definitely worth purchasing as a PNP certification review book and as a general pediatric review book. Text is divided into systems and includes an excellent outline as an overview for each chapter. In addition, this book addresses growth and development, safety, parenting, genetics, health promotion, common pediatric illness, and numerous other issues. Includes clearly written and useful tables and charts. Easy to use, organized, well-written questions. Answers to questions,with rationales, are immediately following the questions, so there is no need to search through the book to find the answer sections! Compared with other certification review books, this one is clearly superior in its organization, coverage of current issues, outlines for each chapter, visual displays, and clarity. ... Read more

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Unlike older textbooks, this must-have book targets physicians, nurses, and nutritionists as its prime audience. ... Read more

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Part of a three-book review series, Mosby's Rapid Review: Maternal-Child Nursing combines maternity and pediatric content in one accessible review book. It provides students with essential, need-to-know nursing content for both course study and NCLEX-RN test preparation. An outline format that conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content serves as a convenient supplement to traditional course textbooks and classroom notes. NCLEX-style review questions at the end of every chapter and a FREE CD-ROM with exam questions, rationales and test-taking tips help readers prepare for course tests and the NCLEX board exams. ... Read more

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This new edition offers practical guidance for implementing developmentally appropriate practices for children from birth through age eight.It includes clear discussions and examples of what is best practice to nurture development of the whole child. Current issues such as readiness, whole language, multi-age grouping, and cultural diversity are addressed with an emphasis on child-centered curriculum. The application of theory to real situations, dialogues and interactions give direction to educators, caregivers, administrators and parents. ... Read more

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Published by Health Leadership Associates, The Certification Review Specialists

Designed specifically to assist pediatric nurse practitioners prepare for certification examinations administered by the ANCC and NCBPNP\N. Detailed content outline format organized to facilitate retention and recall. Test questions follow each chapter. Beneficial in the clinical setting as a reference source ... Read more

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PNP Certification Review Guide
This book is an excellent resource as a study guide with focus areas as well as questions that arte diagnosis specific. It also is a great tool to have on the clinical site as a resource. ... Read more