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Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach, Second Edition teaches undergraduate nursing students the need to know information for working in a pediatric nursing environment. The text has a strong focus on patient safety and QSEN competencies as well as the Family Centered Care Theory. This pediatric-focused text emphasizes communication and interdisciplinary team work, provides family education guidelines, questions for soliciting health history and employs a concept-based approach to the content. This text is differentiated from others through its unique approach to family dynamics including constellation, culture and religious influences to pediatric treatment.

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Dr. Luanne Linnard-Palmer RN CPN has been a nurse for over 31 years. She obtained her undergraduate degree at Humboldt State University, her MSN at University of San Francisco School of Nursing and her Ed.D at University of San Francisco, School of Education. She obtained a post doctorate from University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) in the Department of Family Health Nursing under the direction of Dr. Susan Kools. Dr. Linnard-Palmer is a tenured professor at Dominican University of California in Marin County teaching pediatrics, research and pharmacology. She'continues her clinical practice as a pediatric oncology nurse coordinator for Stanford University, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital and pediatric staff nurse at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Linnard-Palmer's program of research centers around safety, medication and medical error reduction, illumination of Power Distance, simulation safety education and cultural/religious influences to medical treatment refusal or limitation in pediatric health care. Dr. Linnard-Palmer enjoys'accompanying her students abroad to discover how health care is administered in various countries including Costa Rica, Spain and Uganda.

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