title: A new assessment model and tool for pediatric nurse practitioners.
abstract: This article presents a comprehensive assessment model for pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) practice that integrates familiar elements of the classical medical history, Gordon's Functional Health Patterns, and developmental fields into one system. This model drives the diagnostic reasoning process toward consideration of a broad range of disease, daily living (nursing diagnosis), and developmental diagnoses, which represents PNP practice better than the medical model does.
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009737:Nursing Records; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*