Full Description
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
Contents
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
