PNPSS study plan

Build a one-page immunization schedule map from birth through 18 years, marking catch-up windows and contraindications from memory, then verify against a current schedule source and correct errors in red.

Write 12 anticipatory-guidance talking points (injury prevention, safe sleep, nutrition, dental, screen time) and rehearse each aloud in under 60 seconds.

Classify 25 preventive-screening topics by age band (newborn, infancy, early childhood, school age, adolescence) and flag the three you understand least.

Draft a 10-question self-quiz on health supervision visit intervals and scored developmental surveillance, then answer it closed-book and log your score.

Explain the rationale for each well-child visit interval and the preventive content unique to it, in writing, without notes.

Compare three counseling frameworks (motivational interviewing, teach-back, shared decision-making) and write one scripted 90-second example of each applied to a vaccine-hesitant parent.

Work through 20 acute-condition vignettes involving fever, otitis media, pharyngitis, bronchiolitis, and gastroenteritis, and justify each management decision in two sentences.

Identify which red-flag findings in a febrile infant change the workup, and list them from memory.

Distinguish viral from bacterial upper respiratory presentations using at least five discriminating features per condition, and record them in a comparison table.

Sequence the assessment and initial management steps for a child presenting with dehydration, and state the rehydration thresholds you would use.

Practice interpreting 10 sets of basic labs and vital signs in acutely ill children and write the single most likely diagnosis for each.

List the indications for urgent referral or emergency transfer in common pediatric acute presentations and defend each in one line.

Calculate weight-based pediatric doses for 15 commonly used medications, showing the mg/kg arithmetic and the maximum ceiling dose for each.

Match 10 drug classes to their pediatric-specific cautions (age restrictions, monitoring parameters, adverse effects) and write the caution beside each.

Explain how to verify a dose against a reference and what to do when a calculated dose exceeds the adult maximum.

Review your week 1-3 error log and rewrite the five concepts you missed most often into corrected one-line rules.

Map gross motor, fine motor, language, and social milestones across the first five years and identify the earliest age at which each red flag warrants referral.

Describe at least four validated developmental screening and autism-specific tools, stating what each measures and its age range.

Outline the evaluation pathway after an abnormal screening result, including who coordinates referral and what happens while the family waits.

Write a 10-minute parent conversation explaining a suspected developmental delay using plain language and a strengths-first frame.

Summarize the monitoring priorities and care-coordination needs for at least six chronic pediatric conditions (for example asthma, type 1 diabetes, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, congenital heart disease, obesity).

Build a written care plan for one complex patient scenario that names the roles of family, primary care, specialty teams, school, and community services.

Identify medication-adherence barriers specific to adolescents and caregivers, and propose two concrete interventions for each.

Explain how a medical home model changes outcomes for children with special health care needs, citing the mechanism rather than the slogan.

Demonstrate three communication techniques (interpreters, teach-back, chunk-and-check) in written dialogue form for a low-health-literacy family.

Analyze four ethical scenarios (confidentiality in adolescence, refusal of treatment, consent and assent, resource allocation) and state the governing principle and your recommended action for each.

Describe how implicit bias and social determinants alter assessment and management, using two concrete clinical examples.

Outline the advocacy pathway for one pediatric health policy issue, from identifying the problem to a specific actionable ask of a decision-maker.

Appraise two study designs for internal validity, bias, and applicability to a pediatric primary care population, and state whether you would change practice.

Design a small quality-improvement cycle using a measurable aim, an intervention, and a run chart, and specify the data you would collect.

Complete two timed 60-question mixed-domain practice sets and record accuracy by domain.

Re-review every item you have missed across weeks 1-7 and convert each into a one-line rule you can recall cold.