Pediatrics Review: School-Age Children (Including Preschool)
417 22 Pediatrics Review: School-Age Children (Including Preschool) DANGER SIGNALS Kawasaki Disease/Syndrome Onset of high fever (up to 104°F) and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck. Bright-red rash (more obvious…
Pediatrics Review: Toddlers (Ages 2 to 3 Years)
411 21 Pediatrics Review: Toddlers (Ages 2 to 3 Years) DANGER SIGNALS Neuroblastoma Most common presentation is a painful abdominal (retroperitoneal or hepatic) mass that is fixed, firm, irregular, and…
Nursing Research Review
493 29 Nursing Research Review SOURCES OF DATA Primary Sources (Preferred) In research, primary sources are preferred. They are the original research from which the data came. Primary sources are…
Culture and Spiritually Related Health Beliefs
485 28 Culture and Spiritually Related Health Beliefs CULTURE AND NURSING Culturally competent care improves patient satisfaction and patient safety (e.g., by reducing medication-related errors). To provide culturally competent care,…
Professional Roles and Reimbursement
477 27 Professional Roles and Reimbursement THE NURSE PRACTITIONER ROLE History Loretta C. Ford, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Henry K. Silver, MD, started the first nurse practitioner (NP) program at…
Body and Metabolic Changes in the Older Adult
437 24 Body and Metabolic Changes in the Older Adult Skin and Hair With aging, the skin atrophies; the epidermis and dermis thin and there is less subdermal fat and…
Evidence-Based Medicine and Epidemiology
499 30 Evidence-Based Medicine and Epidemiology DEFINITION: EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of…