Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Children, their families and the nurse - 1. Perspectives of pediatric nursing.-- 2. Social, cultural, religious and family influences on child health promotion.-- 3. Hereditary influences on health promotion of the child and family.-- Section 2. Childhood and family assessment - 4. Communication, physical and developmental assessment of the child and family.-- 5. Pain assessment and management in children.-- 6. Childhood communicable and infectious diseases.

The national children's study is the largest prospective long-term study of children's health and development conducted in the United States. The study is designed to follow 100,000 children and their families from birth 21 years own understand the link between children's and vitamins and their physical and emotional health and development (Duncan, Kirkendall, & Citro, 2014.)