MCN's Pediatric Unit Policy and Procedure Manual provides you with a proven roadmap for effective operations and acts as a reference guide to assure optimal Joint Commission compliance. This valuable manual includes over 900 pages of ready-to-customize policies, procedure and forms that promotes patient safety and identifies potential hazards allowing for resolution prior to adverse outcomes. MCN's Pediatric Unit Policy and Procedure Manual:

• Allows for accurate identification of opportunities to improve processes critical to optimal pediatric patient management
• Helps assure staff competency with proven job descriptions/ performance evaluations, population-specific/age-related competency assessments and skill sets
• Addresses infant and child security and abduction prevention
• Includes a comprehensive performance improvement program including program plan, performance measures and trending analysis worksheets
• Comes complete with screening tools, comprehensive initial assessment and reassessments specific to the pediatric population to help you meet all aspects of age-related assessment requirements

This complete resource guide covers the "hot topics" facing Pediatric Units today including patient safety, assessment and reassessment specific the population served, medication management, staff competency infant and child security and much more! Topics covered in this full-scale manual include:

• Pediatric Rights and Responsibilities
• Standards of Practice
• Admission Criteria
• Comprehensive Pediatric Assessment and Reassessment Policies and Forms
• Pain Assessment and Management
• Child Abuse Assessment and Reporting
• Medication Administration for Pediatric Patients
• Patient Care Procedures
• Patient and Family Education
• Discharge Planning
• Infection Control
• PI Plan and Performance Measures
• Child Security
• Job Descriptions, Performance Evaluation, Population-Specific/ Age-Related Competencies and Skills Competency Assessments
• Unacceptable Abbreviations

... and much more!