Peds Nursing
Prepare for Pediatrics with confidence
Weight-based dosing, family care. Find your gaps in minutes, then follow a personalized 90-day path built for pediatrics nurses.
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Peds lessons
90
day learning path
10
competencies graded
What your Peds 90-day path covers
- ✓Developmental stages and what they change about nursing care
- ✓Growth, nutrition and feeding across childhood
- ✓Immunization and anticipatory guidance
- ✓The pediatric assessment triangle and the first impression
- ✓Age-specific vital signs and their interpretation
- ✓Pain assessment across ages
- ✓The pediatric airway and recognizing respiratory distress
- ✓Bronchiolitis and pneumonia
- ✓Asthma in children
- ✓Croup, epiglottitis and upper airway obstruction
- ✓Congenital heart disease and the duct-dependent infant
- ✓Shock, heart failure and Kawasaki disease in children
- ✓Dehydration and fluid replacement in children
- ✓Gastroenteritis, vomiting and diarrhea
- ✓The surgical abdomen in children
- ✓Seizures and status epilepticus in children
- ✓Meningitis and raised intracranial pressure
- ✓Head injury and neurological assessment in children
- ✓Fever and the febrile infant
- ✓Pediatric sepsis and communicable disease
- ✓Type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis in children
- ✓Sickle cell disease and hematologic conditions
- ✓Childhood cancer and treatment complications
- ✓Weight-based dosing and the tenfold error
- ✓High-alert medications in children
- ✓Intravenous therapy and vascular access in children
- ✓Recognizing respiratory failure and shock before arrest
- ✓Pediatric cardiac arrest and resuscitation
- ✓Pediatric trauma, burns and poisoning
- ✓Children with medical complexity and technology dependence
- ✓Palliative and end-of-life care in children
- ✓Family-centered care and communicating with children
- ✓Consent, assent and the legal framework
- ✓Recognizing and reporting child maltreatment
Start with a free gap analysis
Before you study anything, AscendRN's gap analysis shows you exactly where you stand across the ten competencies that matter for pediatrics — patient assessment, pharmacology, prioritization, and more. You find your gaps here, in minutes, instead of at the bedside. Then your path adapts to close them.
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