Why do adolescents engage in nonsuicidal self-injury?
You enter the exam room to take vital signs for a 15-year-old boy. When you ask him to remove his jacket to take his…
Pediatrics
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in children
Treatment for this rare disorder may require repeat surgeries. Takeaways: Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is disease, but it’s progressive and can effect quality of…
Concussion: Prevention, assessment, and management
Concussion, a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, can lead to long-term effects, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy. (See Concussion’s impact.) The Centers for Disease…
A guide for adhesive removal: Principles, practice, and products
All nurses have struggled with removing pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs)—medical tape, plastic bandages, wound dressings—from fragile skin, next to healing wounds, or from sites…
Exploring organ donation with families of pediatric patients
Use this evidence-based approach to help grief-stricken families make a critical decision. Takeaways: As the nurse of a dying child, you are perfectly positioned…
Leveraging technology to improve care and patient outcomes
The CHAMP app supports at-home monitoring of patients with single ventricle cardiac disease. Takeaways: CHAMP is a single ventricle interstage application for home monitoring…
FDA announces plans to evaluate use of opioids for treating cough in children
On Aug. 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that an upcoming meeting of the pediatric advisory committee will focus on the…
New guidelines for nutritional support of critically ill pediatric patients
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Society of Critical Care Medicine have released guidelines for nutritional support in pediatric critically…
How to recognize and intervene for pediatric sepsis
A life-threatening, life-altering emergency, sepsis can have catastrophic effects. When the condition progresses undetected, it can lead to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and death. Mortality…
Pediatric otitis media: To treat or not to treat with antibiotics
A bacterial or viral infection of the middle ear, acute otitis media (AOM) is the most common childhood infection in the United States for which…
Keep kids moving
One-third of American children are overweight or obese. Although many factors contribute to this epidemic, one cause for the rise in childhood obesity is…
Helping patients who harm themselves
Why would someone deliberately hurt herself? The notion might seem odd—but as a nurse, you may encounter patients with signs of selfinjury (also called cutting, selfinflicted violence, self-harm, or self-mutilation). Cutting…
Why do adolescents engage in nonsuicidal self-injury?
You enter the exam room to take vital signs for a 15-year-old boy. When you ask him to remove his jacket to…
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in children
Treatment for this rare disorder may require repeat surgeries. Takeaways: Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is disease, but it’s progressive and can effect…
Concussion: Prevention, assessment, and management
Concussion, a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, can lead to long-term effects, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy. (See Concussion’s impact.) The Centers…
A guide for adhesive removal: Principles, practice, and products
All nurses have struggled with removing pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs)—medical tape, plastic bandages, wound dressings—from fragile skin, next to healing wounds, or…
Exploring organ donation with families of pediatric patients
Use this evidence-based approach to help grief-stricken families make a critical decision. Takeaways: As the nurse of a dying child, you are…
Leveraging technology to improve care and patient outcomes
The CHAMP app supports at-home monitoring of patients with single ventricle cardiac disease. Takeaways: CHAMP is a single ventricle interstage application for…
FDA announces plans to evaluate use of opioids for treating cough in children
On Aug. 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that an upcoming meeting of the pediatric advisory committee will focus…
New guidelines for nutritional support of critically ill pediatric patients
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Society of Critical Care Medicine have released guidelines for nutritional support in…
How to recognize and intervene for pediatric sepsis
A life-threatening, life-altering emergency, sepsis can have catastrophic effects. When the condition progresses undetected, it can lead to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and…
Pediatric otitis media: To treat or not to treat with antibiotics
A bacterial or viral infection of the middle ear, acute otitis media (AOM) is the most common childhood infection in the United States…
Keep kids moving
One-third of American children are overweight or obese. Although many factors contribute to this epidemic, one cause for the rise in childhood…
Helping patients who harm themselves
Why would someone deliberately hurt herself? The notion might seem odd—but as a nurse, you may encounter patients with signs of selfinjury (also called cutting, selfinflicted violence, self-harm,…
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