ISBN:
9780443351112
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
384
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$54.99
Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 4th Edition
by Kimberly Townsend Little, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, CNE and Eve Fleck, MS, ACE GFI, ACE PT, NASM CPT
Paperback
ISBN:
9780443351112
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
384
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$54.99
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Teach students how to promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 4th Edition, helps students plan and implement appropriate care for patients at each age and stage of life. Explaining concepts of physical, cognitive, social, and personality development, this text provides strategies for improving patient health and quality of life for each age group. Healthy People 2030 objectives are used to set a framework for positive health behaviors. From noted educators and authors Kimberly Little and Eve Fleck, this book shows how a knowledge of normal growth and aberrations can be used to design individual approaches to patient care.
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- NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam–style questions accompany clinical judgment case studies at the end of each chapter
- UPDATED! Thoroughly revised content and images throughout reflect today’s healthcare practices and environments
- NEW! Early Childhood chapter is divided into two sections — Toddler and Preschool — to differentiate between these two close life stages
- UPDATED! Expanded coverage addresses LGBTQIA+ considerations, gender identity, and abortion laws
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- NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® Exam–style questions accompany clinical judgment case studies at the end of each chapter
- UPDATED! Thoroughly revised content and images throughout reflect today’s healthcare practices and environments
- NEW! Early Childhood chapter is divided into two sections — Toddler and Preschool — to differentiate between these two close life stages
- UPDATED! Expanded coverage addresses LGBTQIA+ considerations, gender identity, and abortion laws
- Healthy People 2030 goals and objectives are incorporated throughout the book
- Patient teaching strategies for every developmental stage provide age-appropriate patient education tips
- Cultural influences on health are addressed in a separate Cultural Considerations in Health Care chapter and in special boxes throughout the text
- Lifespan Considerations boxes focus on issues specific to developmental stages
- Health Promotion boxes highlight critical health issues related to each life stage
- Safety Alert boxes focus on key safety issues for each life stage
- Critical thinking scenarios and questions at the end of each chapter help students consider all variables when planning care across the lifespan
- Helpful learning features in each chapter include objectives, key terms, key points, and review questions
- This title is also available in Sherpath! Sold separately, this innovative teaching and learning technology offers interactive course content and resources that streamline class preparation and assessment and give students personalized help to reach their learning goals. Sherpath fully includes the ebook of this title for all-in-one digital course delivery.
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1. Healthy People 2030
2. Government Influences on Health Care
3. Cultural Considerations Across the Lifespan and in Health and Illness
4. The Influence of Family on Developing a Lifestyle
5. Theories of Development
6. Prenatal Influences on Healthy Development
7. The Infant
8. Early Childhood
9. Middle Childhood
10. Adolescence
11. Young Adulthood
12. Middle Adulthood
13. Late Adulthood
14. Advanced Old-Age and Geriatrics
15. Planning for the End of Life
16. Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
Appendix
A: Child, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules
B: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms
Glossary
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