Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing
Hockenberry · 12th Edition
Complete chapter-by-chapter study guide aligned with Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (12th Edition). Includes summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions for all 31 chapters.
Overview
Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (12th Edition) distills the field's leading pediatric text into a focused, exam-ready core, and its 31 chapters move briskly from foundational concepts to the body-system disorders you'll be tested on most. This study guide is written from scratch to match it chapter for chapter, so you review in the same order Hockenberry, Gibbs, and Duffy present the material and never lose track of where a topic fits. Each chapter gives you a plain-English summary of the key concepts, the learning objectives stated up front, and NCLEX-style practice questions with a full rationale for every answer, so you learn why each option is right or wrong instead of memorizing a key. You'll begin with the perspectives, family, and developmental foundations of pediatric nursing, then move through communication and developmental assessment, pain assessment, and communicable disease before working through family-centered care of the newborn, infant, toddler, preschooler, school-age child, and adolescent, pairing each age group's health-promotion chapter with its health-problems chapter. From there you'll cover the child with special needs, hospitalization, and pediatric nursing interventions, then the body-system units on respiratory, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hematologic and immunologic, oncologic, genitourinary, cerebral, endocrine, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, and integumentary dysfunction. Every section is matched to the 12th Edition's numbering so your review stays perfectly in sync with lecture. As you study you'll practice prioritizing developmentally appropriate care, spotting red-flag findings early, and answering the application and analysis questions the NCLEX favors across pediatric content. Whether you're prepping for a unit exam, a final, or reviewing pediatric content before the licensure exam, this printable companion is built to be highlighted, annotated, and kept for the whole program. It aligns with the topics and sequence the textbook emphasizes without reproducing its content. Original, independently written, and not affiliated with the publisher.
Aligned with undergraduate pediatric nursing courses and written in an NCLEX-RN style — the practice questions mirror how pediatric content is tested on course exams and the licensure exam.
- 930+ practice questions
- 31 chapters
- ~120 pages
- Instant PDF download
What you'll learn
The major topics this guide walks you through, matched to the textbook's order:
- Foundations of pediatric nursing and family influences
- Developmental and genetic influences on child health
- Communication and developmental assessment
- Pain assessment and management in children
- Childhood communicable and infectious diseases
- Health promotion and problems of the newborn and infant
- Health promotion by developmental stage
- The child with special needs or disability
- Hospitalization and pediatric nursing interventions
- Respiratory and gastrointestinal dysfunction
- Cardiovascular, hematologic, and oncologic dysfunction
- Genitourinary and cerebral dysfunction
- Endocrine, musculoskeletal, and integumentary dysfunction
Need the textbook itself?
The textbook itself, by Marilyn J. Hockenberry, Karen DiValerio Gibbs, and Elizabeth A. Duffy (Elsevier), is the essentials-format companion to the comprehensive Wong's text, condensed for streamlined pediatric nursing courses.
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Chapters covered
Every chapter below is fully covered in the PDF — summary, learning objectives, key terms, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales.
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What exactly do I get?
A printable PDF study guide covering all 31 chapters of Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (12th Edition) — chapter summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. One file, lifetime access, no subscription.
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Does this match the 12th Edition specifically?
Yes — it's built around the 12th Edition, following its chapter numbering and section structure. If your course uses an earlier edition, most concepts still line up, though a few chapters may be renumbered.
Is this the textbook or a study guide?
It's an original, independently written study guide that reviews the same topics in the same order — plain-English summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. It does not reproduce the textbook and isn't affiliated with the publisher.
Will it match my edition?
This guide is built around the 12th Edition. If your class uses a different edition, chapter numbering may shift slightly, but the topics and learning objectives are usually unchanged.
Do I still need the textbook?
The study guide is a companion, not a replacement — it helps you study efficiently and review fast, but you'll still want the textbook for full depth and any assigned readings. You can buy new, rent, or find a used copy through the price links on this page.
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Is this a test bank or copied from the textbook?
No. This is an original study guide written to align with Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing — summaries, objectives, and practice questions with rationales, not a reproduced publisher test bank or copied text.
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About this study guide
This is an original study guide written to align with the topics and learning objectives covered in Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing (12th Edition) by Hockenberry. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the publisher or the textbook's authors. All summaries, practice questions, and explanations are independently authored.