Practice Guidelines for Family Nurse Practitioners Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Résumé du livre

• Current, evidence-based guidelines for patients of all ages provide the latest guidance for managing disorders commonly seen by FNPs in primary care settings.
• Concise outline format makes it easy to quickly locate essential information.
• Quick-reference tables and charts include pediatric conditions charts, comparative charts for similar disorders, and health maintenance guidelines charts.
• Need-to-know coverage of the most common disorders helps familiarize practitioners with situations frequently encountered in clinical practice.
• Content highlights include "not-to-be-missed" content, non-urgent/non-emergent interprofessional referrals, and urgent/emergent interprofessional referrals.
• Practice Pearls highlight practical clinical wisdom gleaned from the authors' extensive practice knowledge base.

• NEW! Updated content reflects the most common conditions and the latest national and international guidelines and evidence-based protocols, including guidelines for COVID-19 and new CDC guidelines for STDs.
• NEW! Full-color illustrations and design with high-visibility Not-to-be-Missed points and referral information aid learning and comprehension.
• NEW! Expanded Practice Pearls emphasize the variety in appearance of certain findings depending on skin tone.
• NEW! Combined cardiac and vascular chapters make information more intuitive and easier to reference.
• NEW! Expanded dermatology content reflects conditions commonly seen in family practice.
• NEW! Topics and conditions presented in alphabetical order within each chapter improve reference value, and a new alphabetical list of conditions is located on the inside the front cover of the print edition.
• NEW! Focused physical examinations are integrated into each body systems chapter as appropriate.
• NEW! Two additional appendices provide quick access to an acetaminophen dosing chart and an ibuprofen dosing chart.