• Updated content keeping in mind the needs of nursing students, nursing staff and tutors. • Novel concepts like family-centered nursing care, atraumatic nursing care, communication, anticipatory guidance, and child advocacy are emphasized. • Detailed elaboration of basics and pathophysiology of diseases to enable clarity of concepts. • Major thrust on providing pediatric nursing care plans and details of common nursing procedures. • Provides information in a simple, lucid and practical manner. • Text is amply supported with tables, diagrams, clinical photographs and algorithms. • Provides a list of important questions as well as multiple choice questions (MCQs) at the end of each chapter to guide the students for the preparation of examinations. • The improved content and examination-oriented questions will be particularly useful for the BSc and MSc Nursing students. • Dedicated to the caring nurses who see the patient and not just the disease, "Caring is the essence of nursing".