AJN award winner!This is a concise, easy-to-use reference, enabling health care providers to identify and understand how and when to use the full scope of medical imaging testing modalities - radiographs, CTs, nuclear imaging, and ultrasound scans and images. The new second edition features a more in-depth discussion of each modality with a focus ......
Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities
A professionals' guide to understanding and better identifying diverse autistic presentations, with chapters covering autistic diagnosis in BAME communities, misdiagnosis and the criminal justice system, the issue of misidentifying fabricated or induced illness, and the controversial and overlapping diagnoses of PDA, ODD, ASPD and BPD.
Developed by the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), this manual provides case managers with the essential tools necessary to successfully support quality patient care within todays complex healthcare system.
The only text to focus specifically on advanced health assessment/management of women This authoritative text for busy clinicians, advanced practice students, and faculty delivers essential content focused on improving the quality of healthcare provided to women/persons with a vagina across the lifespan. Brimming with new and updated content, ......
This book is a comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date practical guide to the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in critical care. It features detailed descriptions of how to perform a POCUS examination plus practical information on using POCUS in the assessment of shock, trauma and cardiac arrest.
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.
Authentic cases to help prepare students for clinical practice! The cases presented in this updated edition cover the fields of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. They will help to improve clinical decision-making, clinical knowledgeand patient management.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to todays mental health clinicians and researchers.
Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment
Complete evidence-based guidance on the assessment of patients across the life span and development of sound clinical reasoning in one convenient and affordable set!The Evidence-Based Physical Examination Textbook and Handbook Set delivers to healthcare clinicians and students an empirical approach to history-taking and physical assessment ......
Thoroughly updated and expanded, this is the third edition of the most trusted resource for anyone involved in EEG interpretation. Designed for on-the-go reference in the clinic or at the bedside, Handbook of EEG Interpretation concisely covers the fundamental components of EEG in clinical practice.
Delivering clear and concise explanations to help students easily grasp key concepts, this book provides a comprehensive, no-nonsense approach to EKG interpretation for nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, as well as practicing clinicians who need a quick refresher.
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.
A Guide for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Encompasses all key diagnostic and management essentials needed for safe, effective pediatric practice. By incorporating the most current sources of literature and evidence-based practice, this guide explains how to best assess, diagnose, and treat common pediatric disorders in an ambulatory care setting.
How to undertake key clinical tests, make effective diagnoses and develop logical clinical reasoning. Eureka: Clinical Skills, Diagnostics and Reasoning features clinical photographs, realistic clinical cases, starter questions and study boxes to equip you with the core knowledge and skills you need.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details the clinical approach to common obstetric and gynecologic presentations, and gives an overview of the initial prenatal visit. It also provides treatment and management details for more than 30 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Takes a unique approach to electrodiagnostic (EDX) medicine, using case studies and exercises to teach clinical reasoning and build technical skills. Through the EDX case studies, lesion localization and characterization are demonstrated and discussed step-by-step using a floating text box that tracks the findings for each case.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details common surgical procedures you'll see, such as thyroidectomy, hernia repair, mastectomy, and appendectomy. It also provides important information on surgical emergencies, including gastrointestinal bleeding, perforated viscus, and limb ischemia.
Everything you'll need for your clinical rotations in one handy and affordable set. Written by PA educators, this first-of-its-kind series covers all seven clinical rotations, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Behavioral Medicine.
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.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as cough, fever, and skin changes. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, altered mental status, and headache. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. It also provides a systems-based approach to 40 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation.
This engaging digital product teaches nursing students and novice clinicians the essentials of fetal heart monitoring and interpretation with a visual, interactive learning format. Progressing from simple to complex, it features key foundational information, review questions that reinforce knowledge, numerous interpretation and application ......
A comprehensive guide for the practicing pathologist and trainee. This volume provides anatomic pathologists with the essential knowledge and tools to navigate breast cases and classification systems that are commonly and uncommonly found in everyday practice. Particularly challenging topics are covered in clear prose, along with discussions on ......
An ideal companion to the groundbreaking TILLS test! Screen with SLS, and then follow up and diagnose with TILLS. For use on its own or with the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TM) (TILLS (TM)), the Student Language Scale (SLS) reliably screens students ages 6-18 years for language/literacy disorders, including dyslexia.
The NP's and PA's Guide to a Comprehensive History and Deciphering the D
Written specifically for both the novice and experienced cardiovascular clinician in acute care settings, this is the only resource to focus on the art of conducting an indepth patient history. Using the steps and strategies outlined in this text, the cardiovascular clinician will learn to adopt a specific and detailed line of questioning to ......