Social prescribing is now embedded in the UK healthcare system, aiming to alleviate many of the pressures currently facing our healthcare system. Simultaneously, it offers a holistic approach to patients' health and well-being. In light of this, Social Prescribing Link Workers are playing a more crucial role than ever. They work in partnership ......
A Quick Reference Guide for Primary Care Clinicians
Do you feel unprepared when faced with the difficult and delicate questions patients have about sexual health and contraception? Then arm yourself with this quick-reference guide, packed with all the essential information you'll need to know as a healthcare professional working within primary care. This practical resource empowers you to skilfully ......
Provides healthcare administrators, consultants, and clinicians with a roadmap to establishing a systemic, patient-centred, family-oriented behavioural health service that is integrated into a healthcare setting.
10 minute steps for stressed healthcare professionals
This book offers simple practical advice on how to manage the stress and exhaustion that often come with working in primary care. The authors show how making small changes in key life areas can have a surprisingly significant impact on mood and can help improve our wellbeing, all in 10 minutes a day.
Step-By-Step Guidance for Assessment and Intervention
The newest edition, now in paperback, of Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care brings the reader up to speed with changing aspects of primary care service delivery in response to the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), the Triple-Aim health approach, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
New edition of the premier quick reference to conducting thorough musculoskeletal and neuromuscular examinations, now in full color with video. Comprehensive and concise, the 3-Minute Musculoskeletal and Peripheral Nerve Exam, Second Edition is a lifeline for the beginning learner and trusted point-of-care reference for seasoned practitioners. ......
The only book to explicitly guide clinicians through an evidence-based approach to ordering and interpreting laboratory tests. With over 160 commonly ordered tests, this book is designed to foster more accurate clinical decision-making to attain the highest level of patient care.
Now in its third edition, Sports Medicine: Study Guide and Review for Boards continues as the leading review text offering a focused survey of non-surgical sports medicine topics. Updated throughout to reflect current sports science, protocols, and practice, this book covers all topics related to and found on the Sports Medicine board examination. ......
A pocket guide that has everything you need to ensure a thorough well visit for your pediatric patients from newborn to adolescence. With the author's unique NEST & FLY mnemonic applied throughout, healthcare providers are methodically guided through each well visit to ensure a consistent and complete exam.
A new and updated edition of the essential guide for GPs wishing to establish a minor surgery service for their patients. Now covers accreditation, diagnosis and management of skin lesions, and long-term contraception.
Offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient's chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings.
Provides the most up to date and relevant information needed to fulfil coverage duties for sporting events. Easy to read, concise, and complete, this guide is a one-stop reference for sideline medical coverage of nearly fifty sports. Geared for live event coverage, chapters deliver quick hit specifics designed for in-the-moment use on the field.
Written by a world-renowned expert in perinatal pharmacology, this essential reference contains current, complete, and evidence-based information on the transmission of maternal drugs into human milk. This 2021 edition has been extensively revised, and now includes 49 completely new and 356 updated medications.
Focusing on common pediatric conditions seen in primary care settings, this text provides novice, expert, and student nurse practitioners with increased knowledge on the most up to date recommendations about common childhood diseases and conditions.
Concise and clearly organised, this resource features detailed, step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting, information on health promotion, care guidelines, dietary information, information on culturally responsive care, patient resources, and abundant patient-education handouts.
Revised and updated, the second edition of this practical resource remains the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.