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| Nursing Approach to the Evaluation of Child Maltreatment |
Nursing Approach to the Evaluation of Child Maltreatment provides the information nurses need to identify, interpret, and report signs of child maltreatment. The areas of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect are extensively addressed, and each chapter is structured to give a general overview of the topic area, followed by a detailed treatment plan relevant to the specific type of abuse. Each chapter includes easy-to-use checklists, examination hints, and flow charts for easy access to important information. Edited by a nurse and a pediatrician, with contributions from experts in the various fields of child maltreatment, this handy reference is a must-have for every nurse and nurse practitioner who may be confronted with possible child abuse. It clearly illustrates abusive and nonabusive injuries, and it identifies the most common types of child abuse, including uncommon but possible causes. Additional topics include interviews, forensic evaluations, physical exams, STDs, documentation, domestic violence, and prevention. |
| Product Details: | Paperback, perfect-bound |
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| 508 pages, 186 images | |
| 19 contributors | |
| Audience: | Nurses, Physicians, ER Personnel, Pediatricians, EMTs, Social Service Personnel, Mental Health Professionals, Domestic Violence Experts, Child Advocates, Child Abuse Prevention Professionals, Child Protective Services Members, Educators |
| Publication Date: | 2003 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-878060-51-8 |
| Eileen R. Giardino, PhD, RN, CRNP |
Eileen Giardino is a nurse practitioner and an associate professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is the track director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program, teaches both graduate and undergraduate students at the university, and works as a nurse practitioner in Student Health. Dr. Giardino has published in the area of child and adult sexual abuse and currently lectures on the evaluation of intimate partner violence and suspected child abuse to nursing and nurse practitioner students. Dr. Giardino received her BSN and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, her MSN at Widener University, and Nurse Practitioner Certification in Adult and Family at La Salle University in Philadelphia, where she also received SANE training. |
| Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP |
Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Dr. Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan's quality improvement program. Additionally, Dr. Giardino began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropist. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and in June of 1999, he was asked to chair the CHOP Quality Committee. These accomplishments are only a few of his career. |
Part I Overview
1. The Problem of Child Abuse and Neglect
2. Presentation and Overview of the Evaluation of Child Maltreatment
Part II Healthcare Evaluation
3. History and the Healthcare Interview
4. The Physical Examination in the Evaluation of Suspected Child Maltreatment: Physical Abuse and Sexual Abuse Examinations
5. Laboratory Findings, Diagnostic Testing, and Forensic Specimens in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
6. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Setting of Maltreatment
7. Differential Diagnosis: Conditions That Mimic Child Maltreatment
8. Clinical Aspects of Child Neglect
9. Documentation of the Evaluation of Cases of Suspected Child Maltreatment
Part III Related Issues
10. Mental Health Aspects of Child Survivors of Abuse and Neglect
11. Sexual Abuse of Adolescents
12. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
13. Child Protective Services and Child Abuse
14. Legal Issues
15. The Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment
16. Risks to Children in the Digital Age
17. Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect: Approaches and Issues
| Reviews |
The chapters offered in this book address the critical areas nurses must be aware of as they face the issues of child maltreatment and neglect. With these tools in hand, the nurse will be equipped to function as a positive instrument of change for families and, eventually, future citizens.
Ann W. Burgess, DNSc, FAAN, RN |
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Healthcare professionals can only function well when they are given adequate, accurate information. This textbook offers in-depth, well-documented information that should help guide nurses to be exceptional providers of healthcare to the families they encounter each day. The editors are to be thanked for assembling a dedicated team of authors who offer their expertise in the important area of child maltreatment education for nurses.
Diana K. Faugno, BSN, RN, CPN, FAAFS, SANE-A/A |
