Well-Child Primary Care Pocket Guide: For PAs, NPs, and Other Healthcare Providers

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Tanya Fernandez, MS, PA-C, IBCLC

Well-Child Primary Care Pocket Guide

For PAs, NPs, and Other Healthcare Providers

Tanya Fernandez, MS, PA-C, IBCLC

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Springer Publishing Co Inc
30 August 2021

General practice; Paediatric medicine; Paediatric nursing

The only pocket-sized resource to methodically guide you through pediatric well visits using a unique mnemonic to ensure consistent and thorough evaluation of your patients.

This pocket guide has everything you need to ensure a thorough well visit for your pediatric patients from newborn to adolescence. With the author's unique NEST & FLY mnemonic applied throughout, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers are methodically guided through each well visit to ensure a consistent and complete exam.

Uniquely designed in easy-to-navigate color-coded tables, you will quickly find all the information you need at your fingertips to evaluate your pediatric patients' nutrition, elimination, growth, family and social environment, and physical and cognitive development. You will also find key interviewing strategies and questions to gather an updated history, as well as step-by-step guidelines for the head-to-toe physical examination. Also included are anticipatory guidance suggestions for caregivers and patient education by age group.

Key Features:

Color coded by age group (newborn, infant, toddler/preschooler, school-age, adolescents)

Logical and easy-to-remember mnemonic for gathering a comprehensive well-child history

Pertinent questions (including psychosocial screening) and anticipatory guidance by age

Key developmental features organized in easy-to-read tables/charts

Health promotion-related approaches to the patient and family and their importance

Suggested vaccine schedule, easy-reference dosing for acetaminophen and ibuprofen by age and weight

By: Tanya Fernandez MS PA-C IBCLC
Imprint: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 127mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780826156464
ISBN 10: 0826156460
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Spiral bound
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviewers Preface Foreword Acknowledgements About This Book The Approach to the Well Visit NEST & FLY: Taking the History Pediatric Ages & Stages Performing the Pediatric Exam The Preparticipation Exam Screening and Diagnostic Tools Wrapping Up the Well Visit Documenting the Well Visit NEST & FLY Tables by Age Newborn (3 to 5 Days Old) 2 Weeks or 1 Month Early Breastfeeding Challenges Later Breastfeeding Challenges 2 Months 4 Months 6 Months 9 Months 12 Months 15 to 18 Months 24 Months 30 & 36 Months 4 Years 5 & 6 Years 7 & 8 Years 9 & 10 Years 11 & 12 Years 13 & 14 Years 15 to 18 Years Preparticipation Exam (PPE) References Abbreviations

Tanya L. Fernandez, MS, PA-C, IBCLC, is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant (CHA/PA) program.