Well-Child Primary Care Pocket Guide: A Quick Reference for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners

by Tanya Fernandez MS, PA-C, IBCLC

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826156471
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	07/31/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

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

Table of 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