NURS 3444- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 144 pages long!)
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Objectives: list the standards of practice for pediatric nurses, explain the differences between health promotion, health maintenance and prevention and provide examples, provide examples of how early life experiences affect life-long health, define family-centered care. Identify characteristics that enable families to handle life stressors in a positive way. Leading mortality: 1/6 children suffer food insecurity, go home concerned about eating, unintentional injury, younger kids-also poisoning. Core foundations of children"s health: responsive caregiving, safe and secure environments, adequate and appropriate nutrition, health promoting behaviors, all 4 interconnected/important for children. Health continuum: direct care, patient education, advocacy, case management, research. Levels of prevention: primary prevention, immunization, reduce risk factors, secondary preventions, screening to promote early case finding, early treatment to prevent complications, tertiary prevention, minimizing residual disease, helping to live with residual disease. The early and periodic screening, diagnostic and treatment (epsdt: children under age 21 enrolled in medicaid benefit.
