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.
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 ......
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as abdominal pain, headache and fatigue. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 70 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. This title explains the social, legal, and ethical background to the Act by focusing on well-known cases such as those of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan.
Illuminates issues in medical ethics revolving around the complex bond between healer and patient, focusing on friendship and other important values in the healing relationship. This book explores the role of the health professional, the moral basis of health care, and greater emphasis on the humanities in medical education.
A new and creative way of thinking about the consultation in primary care, for both trainees and practising GPs This book helps readers focus on the two key objectives of every consultation: working out what matters, and deciding with the patient what to do about it.
A collection of life experiences, anecdotes and suggestions from an experienced GP and GP trainer focusing on the emotional intelligence required to be a great GP.
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. ......
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.
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. ......
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.
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 ......
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.
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.
Fran's cartoons, which have appeared in Private Eye and GP Magazine, poke fund at the absurdities of General Practice. This book of cartoons will entertain and raise the spirits of the overburdened GP, and may even show patients how their behaviour impacts on the treatment they receive.