Make list or a chart of the normal growth and development behaviors and tasks that are supposed to be exhibited at the various ages in peds. Like pathophysiology of medical diseases, you look to deviations from these norms to point you to the symptoms of the pediatric disorders. This is important because the ability of babies and children to articulate their discomforts is limited compared to adults. So, your physical assessment skills have to be very sharp with kids. Your clues to the disease processes going on with them are going to lie in the behavior they exhibit. Therefore, you have to know these normal behavior patterns down cold. If you didn't learn them last semester you need to do so now.
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