This book offers solutions on how to enhance the normal development of the well child incorporating complementary medicine. The primary care provider is the only healthcare professional to see every child (0-18) and their parent, and can assess the child's health and advise parents on how to provide a healthy environment and important practices to nurture healthy children.

The book provides realistic scenarios encountered by new nurse practitioners in their clinical training. It is structured in a question and answer framework to help practitioners critically think through the best practices to be implemented during the well child visit and develop a plan of action for the family. This book provides assessment and diagnostic criteria and tools and presents common developmental and behavioral issues for each age group. The book promotes the role of professional as advocate by making recommendations for broad social policies to help all children succeed.

Provides an understandable clinical context for new nurse practitioners to care for child (0-18) Offers realistic well child visits to develop NP's thinking skills Incorporates professional advocacy and specific child development enhancement skills

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Dr. Deborah Kramer has been teaching nursing at the graduate and undergraduate levels for the past 32 years. She has been a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner since 1982, and has expertise in primary care, early intervention (0-3 years), individuals with disabilities and in alternative and complementary therapies. She has been a Family Nurse Practitioner since 2006. Dr. Kramer is currently Professor of Nursing at College of Mount Saint Vincent Department of Nursing (New-York), where she works clinically with children with special needs. She also evaluates medical needs and develops inclusion programs for children and young adults with developmental disabilities in the community. Her summer camp inclusion program has been replicated by nonprofit organizations in other camp settings. She has an integrated private practice in complementary/alternative therapies. She has presented lectures nationally and internationally on Brain Development in Infants and Children, and on EnergyMedicine, and other complementary therapies and published on the topic. Dr. Kramer's area of research is in burnout in pediatric hematology/oncology staff and she has published some initial findings of her international study. Her Masters of Science in Nursing was earned at Columbia University School of Nursing, and Masters and Doctorate in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Part 1: Preparation for the Well-Child Visit.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Overview of the Well Child Visit.- Chapter 3: Role of Development.- Chapter 4: Health History and Physical Exam.- Chapter 5: The Primary Care Provider as Advocate.- Chapter 6: Complementary Medicine.- Part II: Case Studies.- Chapter 7: Newborn Visit.- Chapter 8: Two-Week Visit.- Chapter 9: Two-Month Visit.- Chapter 10: Four-Month Visit.- Chapter 11: Six-Month Visit.- Chapter 12: Nine-Month Visit.- Chapter 13: One-Year Visit.- Chapter 14: Eighteen-Month Visit.- Chapter 15: Two-Year Visit.- Chapter 16: Thirty-Month Visit.- Chapter 17: Three-Year Visit.- Chapter 18: Four-Year Visit.- Chapter 19: Five-Year Visit.- Chapter 20: Six-Year Visit.- Chapter 21: Seven-Year Visit.- Chapter 22: Eight-Year Visit.- Chapter 23: Nine-Year Visit.- Chapter 24: Ten-Year Visit.- Chapter 25: Eleven-Year Visit.- Chapter 26: Twelve-Year Visit.- Chapter 27: Thirteen-Year Visit.- Chapter 28: Fourteen-Year Visit.- Chapter 29:Fifteen-Year Visit.- Chapter 30: Sixteen-Year Visit.- Chapter 31: Seventeen-Year Visit.- Chapter 32: Eighteen-Year Visit.- Appendix: Anticipatory Guidance for Adolescents.