Family Nursing

Covers various stages of growth and development from the six to the 18 year old. Includes a helpful discussion of the "teen-age" brain, which undergoes a major transformation between the ages of thirteen to twenty-five. A conversation about mirror neurons helps explain why a kid who bullies becomes an adult who bullies and is most likely to have been raised by a person who bullied, why child abusers beget child abusers, and the theory that autistic children have "broken" mirrors. Covers the assessment of various clinical conditions that school nurses ...

Barb Bancroft's approach to interpreting lab tests is a "must hear" for nurses in all areas and nurses at all levels. You will leave the seminar with a plethora of practical pearls that can be applied to your patients in the hospital, in the primary care facility, or in the ICU. The WBC and differential is discussed as it relates to viral infections, bacterial infections, and parasitic infections...