Summer 2009
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In this issue: 04 | Keeping Families Together
Our Home Care team does “whatever it takes” to help families care for their medically fragile children at home.
08 | Research C...
Fall 2009
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In this issue: 12 | Straddling Two Worlds
Doctors walk a tightrope as adolescents seek greater control over their healthcare decisions.
04 | The Right Call Teens and young adu...
Winter 2010
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In this issue: 04 | Assembling the Autism Puzzle
Seattle Children’s new Autism Center brings resources together to help families cope with a chronic, often disabling conditi...
PEDIATRIC SKILLS LAB ADMINISTRATION OF INJECTABLE MEDICATIONS THE FIVE RIGHTS! -THE RIGHT PATIENT -THE RIGHT DRUG -THE RIGHT TIME -THE RIGHT DOSE -THE RIGHT ROUTE IMPORTANT STEPS TO REMEMBER: -COMP...
Goal-Directed Management of Pediatric Shock in the Emergency Department
Joseph A. Carcillo, MD, Kato Han, MD, John Lin, MD, Richard Orr, MD
Early recognition and treatment of pediatric shock, regar...
Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing (CCGMP) url is www.ccgmp.com. Here is a free sample chapter from the "Educational Review Manual in Pediatrics.
Our 14 online board reviews are FREE fo...
Review and presentation of the current literature on perioperative assessment and management in the Pediatric population with an emphasis in the medically complex Pediatric patient.
Results of the 2008 NRMP Program Director Survey
December 2008
www.nrmp.org
Requests for permission to use these data as well as questions about the content of this publication or the National R...
PNEUMOCOCCAL CATCH UP SCHEDULE FOR CHILDREN BORN AFTER 1 JANUARY 2008
PNEUMOCOCCAL CATCH UP GUIDELINES: 1. No more than 1 dose needs to be given after 24 months of age 2. No more than 2 doses need ...
The management of the febrile newborn and infant is presented. There is a difference in the management of the infant aged 28 to 90 days and the infant older than 90 days old. The algorithm suggesti...
Pharmacogenetics:
Everyone’s just a little different! “If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science and not an art.”
Sir William Osler, 1892
Alan...
Genomic Healthcare: A New Era in Healthcare for Pediatric Nurses
Dale Halsey Lea, MPH, RN, CGC,FAAN National Human Genome Research Institute
Learning Objectives
• Define genomic healthcare. • Desc...
Understanding Anticoagulants
The Good . . . and the Bad
Alan P. Agins, Ph.D.
President, PRN Associates Continuing Medical Education, Tucson, AZ
Overview of Hemostasis
Blood Vessel Injury Neural Me...
Psychotropic Drugs in Children: Newer Perspectives on Therapy and Abuse
Alan P. Agins, Ph.D.
President, PRN Associates Continuing Medical Education, Tucson, AZ
ADHD and Stimulants
Hallucinations,...
Keeping it Simple: Making the Connection between Health literacy and Patient Safety
Wayne Neal, MAT, RN-BC Susan Keller, MLS, MT (ASCP) June 5, 2009 Pediatric Trends
Objectives
• Define Health Lit...
From Pain to Sleep: Liste ning to Patient‐Reported Outcomes
Pediatric Trends 2009
Pamela S. Hinds, PhD, RN, FAAN Director, Nursing Researc h Children’s National Medic al Center Washington, D.C.
Obj...