Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing » (2nd Edition)

Mary Ann Hogan, RN, CS, MSN has been a nurse educator for 20 years, currently as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN, Ms. Hogan has been teaching NCLEX-RN review courses throughout New England for the last 14 years. She has also contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health and fundamentals of nursing. Ms. Hogan is an ANCC-certified clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau.

Judy E. White, RNC, MA, MSN has taught at all levels of nursing, including LPN, diploma, associate degree and baccalaureate programs at schools of nursing in Kentucky, New York, and Alabama. Ms. White has contributed NCLEXRN test questions to numerous publications, and she has taught the pediatric component of NCLEX-RN Review Courses in New York and Kentucky. Currently, she is the Director of Nursing and Nurse Educator at Vital Care, Inc., a home infusion pharmaceutical company that provides continuing education to nurses.

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of child health nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series is a comprehensive CD-ROM, to provide additional review material.

Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering growth & development, nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, special considerations, and much more.

For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

1. Growth and Development.

2. Nursing Process, Physical Assessment, and common Laboratory Tests.

3. Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Health Problems.

4. Respiratory Health Problems.

5. Cardiac Health Problems.

6. Neurologic Health Problems.

7. Renal and Genitourinary Health Problems.

8. Endocrine Health Problems.

9. Musculoskeletal Health Problems.

10. Integumentary Health Problems.

11. Immunologic Health Problems.

12. Cellular Health Problems.

13. Gastrointestinal Health Problems.

14. Hematological Health Problems.

15. Special Considerations.