Pediatric Nursing Department
The Recommended List of References for Undergraduate Students
Course Notes: Notes prepared in the form of a book authorized by the department. Pediatric
Nursing. Youssef. M.A. & El-Dakhakhny, A.M. 2005
Recommended Books: •
Hokenberry MJ & Wilson D (2007): Wong’s Nursing Care of Infants and
Children (8th ed.). Canada. Mosby Elsevier.
•
Hokenberry MJ & Wilson D (2009): Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing
(8th ed.). Canada. Mosby Elsevier.
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James SR & Ashwill JW (2007): Nursing Care of Children Principles &
Prac"ce (3rd ed.). Canada. Saunders Elsevier.
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Kyle T (2008): Essentials of Pediatric Nursing. Baltimore. Wolters Kluwer
Health│ Lippinco, Williams & Wilkins.
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Potts NL & Mandleco BL(Eds.), Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and
Their Families (3rd ed.). Canada. Delmar Cengage Learning.
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Pillitteri A (2009): Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the
Childbearing and Childrearing Family (6th ed.). Philadelphia. Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins a Wolters Kluwer business.
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Ashwill J, Murray SS, James SR & McKinney ES (2009): Maternal-Child
Nursing (3rd ed.). Canada. Saunders Elsevier.
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DaƩa P (2007): Pediatric Nursing. New Delhi. Jaypee Brothers Medical
Publishers.
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RM Kliegman RM, Jenson HB, Behrman RE, & Stanton BF(Eds.) (2007):
Nelson Text Book of Pediatrics (18th ed.). Philadelphia. Saunders Elsevier.
Recommended Web Sites: •
emedicine - medscape pediatrics: http://emedicine.medscape.com/pediatrics_general
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Nursing Children and Young People: http://nursingchildrenandyoungpeople.rcnpublishing.co.uk/
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Society of Pediatric Nurses: - http://www.pedsnurses.org/
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Pediatric Nursing Journal: - http://www.pediatricnursing.net/
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American
Academy
of
Pediatrics
www.aap.org
The official Web site of the AAP offers a wealth of information on pediatric
health topics, including pages created specifically for families and for health
care providers. On the Parenting Corner page, parents can learn what
different pediatric subspecialists are, find out where to locate a pediatrician
or pediatric specialist, order titles from the parenting bookstore and read
articles about featured health topics such as immunizations and car safety
seats. The Health Topics section features valuable information resources
related to health promotion, community health, violence prevention,
literacy, and Native American children’s health.
•
Children
First
for
Health
www.childrenfirst.nhs.uk/
This attractive Web site from the United Kingdom contains more than 1,000
pages of health informa"on for children, teenagers and parents in 10
different languages, including English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Turkish.
While much of the material on the site is geared toward residents of the
UK, the information provided can help fill the gap of multilingual pediatric
health education materials.
•
Children’s
Health
Environmental
Coalition
www.checnet.org
The Children’s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) is a national
nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public--specifically,
parents and caregivers--about environmental toxins that affect children’s
health. Interactive features in the Web site’s HealtheHouse section include
Virtual House (a virtual tour of common home environmental health risks)
and My Home Quiz, which enables users to receive personalized assistance
in identifying and eliminating their household risks.
•
The
Children’s
Heart
Institute
www.childrenheartinstitute.org/educate/eduhome.htm
This award-winning site, created by pediatric cardiologist Hasan Abdallah,
MD, presents pediatric cardiology in simple language so that kids with heart
problems and their families can understand how the heart works. The site’s
excellent Patient Education page includes The Heart House, a simplified
illustration of the structure and inner workings of the heart. There is also a
Medications page with information for doctors and nurses on pediatric
cardiology drugs and their recommended doses.
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ChildStats.gov
http://childstats.gov
Sponsored by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics,
this Web site offers easy access to statistics and reports on children’s and
family health topics as well as socioeconomic issues affecting children’s
health. A key feature of the site is the America’s Children: Key National
Indicators of Children’s Well-Being report, which contains extensive
information relating to minority children’s health and health disparities.
ChildStats also offers links to tables and databases comparing the wellbeing of children in the U.S. with those in other countries.
•
FirstGov
for
Kids:
Health
Page
www.kids.gov/k_health.htm
Maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center, FirstGov for Kids is a
kid-friendly gateway to a wealth of annotated Web resources from
governmental, educational and commercial sites. On the Health page, kids
can find answers to questions about healthy eating and exercise, living with
a disability, smoking, drug abuse, girls’ health issues and much more.
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GeneralPediatrics.com
www.generalpediatrics.com
This site, produced by a physician and partially supported by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an extensive collection of links to
pediatric health informa"on resources selected from over 400 Web sites.
GeneralPediatrics.com’s central feature is a pair of easily searchable A-to-Z
guides to common pediatric health problems--one for health professionals,
the other for patients and families. Topics covered include asthma,
diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), suicide prevention and
many more. The section for patients includes a link to an excellent selection
of Multilingual Patient Education Resources in many different languages.
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Health
Information
Sheets
www.childrenshospital.org/pa"entsfamilies/Site1393/mainpageS1393P201
sublevel154.html
Here you’ll find downloadable information sheets on various children’s
health topics--such as childhood obesity, asthma, depression and child
passenger safety--created by medical experts at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Parents can also search the site for information about a wide variety of
other pediatric health conditions. This Web site is part of a partnership with
Yahoo! in which Children’s provides pediatric content to Yahoo! Health.
Additional
pediatric
health
information
can
be
found
at
http://health.yahoo.com/centers/parenting/.
•
Health
Topics:
Infants
and
Children
www.cdc.gov/health/nfantsmenu.htm
A collection of informational resources on pediatric health issues from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Topics include
immunizations, fetal alcohol syndrome, disabilities, lead poisoning, SIDS
and Kawasaki Syndrome, a disease that disproportionately affects Asian
children. Detailed information on each topic is provided along with links to
other related health resources.
•
Indian
Health
Service
Kids
Page
www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Kids/index.cfm
Created by the IHS especially for kids, this site is enhanced with multimedia
features and a variety of attention-grabbing tools--such as word-finds, a
comic book and interactive quizzes--to teach young people about health
and safety while exploring their Native American cultural heritage. The site
includes many resources designed to teach kids decision-making skills
about alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gangs, bullying and domestic abuse. While
not all of the health information is specific to American Indians and Alaska
Natives, the extensive collection of links relating to Native American
history, culture, art and story-telling make this site a valuable educational
resource.
•
KidsHealth
www.KidsHealth.org
A project of the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth provides doctor-approved
health information in English and Spanish about children ranging in age
from before birth through adolescence. Separate sections of ageappropriate content for kids, teens and parents include original articles,
videos, games and expert resources that are accurate, up-to-date and easily
understood. Examples of topics covered include prenatal care, nutrition
and fitness, asthma, diabetes, sickle cell disease, teen suicide prevention
and teen sexual health.
•
MedlinePlus:
Children’s
Health
Page
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childrenshealth.html
MedlinePlus, from the National Library of Medicine and the National
Institutes of Health, has a special collection of reliable, up-to-date child
health information resources that health professionals and health
consumers will both find helpful. The links are organized into categories
such as diagnosis/symptoms, treatment, prevention/screening, research,
statistics and financial issues. Many resource links under each topic have a
Spanish-language version. Nurses who work with low-income, uninsured
and immigrant families should be sure to check out the link to the
Department of Health and Human Services’ Insure Kids Now program.
•
National
Institute
of
Child
Health
&
Human
Development
www.nichd.nih.gov
The NICHD, one of the National Institutes of Health, offers information on
its site for parents, health care professionals and health educators. Many
NICHD publications, research studies and patient education materials
(some in Spanish) can be found in the Health Information & Media section.
Culturally competent resources available here include “Back to Sleep” SIDS
prevention campaign materials designed specifically for African American
and Hispanic families. Most of the publications are available online in PDF
and/or HTML formats; in many cases, paper copies can be ordered free of
charge.
•
NOAH
Children’s
Health
Page
www.noah-health.org/en/healthy/children
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health), a collaborative project
developed by a partnership of several libraries in the New York City area, is
a bilingual English/Spanish Web resource dedicated to providing consumer
health information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and easily understood
by laypersons. The Children’s Health page provides access to high-quality,
full-text information on a wide variety of pediatric topics, including asthma,
eating disorders, children and AIDS, environmental health, accident
prevention, dental care and childhood obesity.
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PedsCCM:
The
Pediatric
Critical
Care
Website
http://pedsccm.wustl.edu
PedsCCM
contains
a
collection
of
information
resources
and
communication tools for health care professionals who care for critically ill
and injured infants and children. All materials submitted to the Web site
are peer reviewed. The site is supported in part by the Section on Critical
Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Section of the
Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium.
•
The
Pocket
Guide
to
Good
Health
for
Children
www.ahrq.gov/ppip/childguide (English), www.ahrq.gov/ppip/spchguide
(Spanish)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers this online
guide to help parents keep track of the immunizations, tests, checkups and
other types of health care their children will need. Parents and families
from different cultural backgrounds, especially those who are recent
immigrants to the U.S., may have had different experiences with
immunizations and other types of pediatric preventive care when they
were growing up. The information in this guide can educate them and help
them make well-informed decisions about what care their children should
receive to maintain good health.
•
Your
Child’s
Health
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/info/
This well-organized site, created and maintained by Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center, contains an extensive collection of patient
education materials on a wide range of pediatric health topics. Many of the
materials are available in both English and Spanish. Some topics relating
specifically to minority health issues include immunizations, sickle cell
anemia, lupus, asthma and diabetes.