This easy-to-read outline review follows the unique two-column Straight A's format that lets students choose how they study to improve test scores and final grades. The interior column outlines key facts for in-depth review; the exterior column lists only the most crucial points for quickest review. Other features include pretest questions at the beginning of each chapter; end-of-chapter NCLEX®-style questions; lists of top items to study before a test; Time-Out for Teaching patient-teaching points; Go with the Flow algorithms; and alerts highlighted in a second color.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains hundreds of NCLEX®-style questions—including alternate-item format questions—with answers and rationales.

Advisory Board

Contributors and Consultants

How to Use This Book

Foreword

1: Nursing Care During Growth and Development

2: Conditions Interfering with Pediatric Health

3: Pediatric Assessment

4: Communicable Diseases and Infections

5: Altered Hematologic Functioning

6: Altered Immunologic Functioning

7: Altered Neurosensory Functioning

8: Altered Respiratory Functioning

9: Altered Cardiac Functioning

10: Altered Gastrointestinal Functioning

11: Altered Genitourinary Functioning

12: Altered Musculoskeletal Functioning

13: Altered Endocrine and Metabolic Functioning

14: Altered Dermatologic Status

15: Cancer

16: Altered Psychosocial Functioning

Glossary

Selected References

Index