Reuter-Rice (pediatric nursing, Duke U.) and Bolick (women, children, and family nursing, Rush U.) present 51 chapters for healthcare professionals who care for pediatric patients in various settings, including emergency, transport, inpatient, and critical care. Clinicians from the US and Canada working in child life, pediatrics and other medical specialties, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, psychology, public health, and other areas discuss the interprofessional team, its members, and their roles; research, evidence-based practice, and decision making; certification and credentialing; documentation and coding; communication; patient safety; patient care and working with the family; management in various settings; and selected disorders of various body systems and their management, with information on physiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and etiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, diagnostic study, therapeutic management, consultation, patient and family education, and disposition and discharge planning. Additional chapters cover emergency preparedness and different procedures, from intubation to lumbar puncture. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)