Pediatric Nursing: Principles

Informed consent and assent, best practices for the administration of oral medications to children, best practices for nursing care for hospitalized children, and how children perceive illness and death.

The pediatric vaccine schedule for all ages, general contraindications for immunizations, vaccine-specific contraindications, and pain management, administration, documentation, and family teaching for immunizations.

Key components of a pediatric assessment, expected vital sign ranges for infants and children, and pediatric pain scales.

Types of child abuse, risk factors, the reporting requirements for nurses, and signs of different types of abuse.

Child safety pertaining to car seats, drowning prevention, burn prevention, poisoning prevention and treatment, and choking prevention, signs/symptoms, and interventions.

Types of families (e.g., nuclear, blended, extended), family theories (e.g., family systems theory, family stress theory), types of parenting (e.g., authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, indifferent/passive), Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and Erikson's theory of psychosocial development.