Well-Child Primary Care Pocket Guide: For PAs, NPs, and Other Healthcare Providers

This pocket guide has everything you need to ensure a thorough well visit for your pediatric patients from newborn to adolescence. With the authors 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 caregiver and patient education by age group.

Key Features::

• Color coded by age group (infant, toddler/preschool, school-aged, adolescence)
• 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