Family Practice Guidelines
Published on 18. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
912 pages
978-0-8261-1812-7 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook is a comprehensive family practice resource for primary care clinicians. It provides current national practice guidelines that provide the foundational standard of care for practice helping the clinician to deliver high quality primary health care to patients across the lifespan in the outpatient setting. The book features details on physical examination and diagnostic testing, information on health promotion, guidelines of care, dietary information, procedures, national resources for patient use, and patient education handouts all in one resource! Patient Teaching Sheets are designed to be copied and given to patients. They include important patient education points, written in lay language, and include: description of the problem (diagnosis), cause, prevention, treatment plan including diet medications, activity limitations recommended, and if indicated, instructions on how to apply medications for maximum effectiveness (e.g. instilling eye drops, or applying eye ointments). New in this edition: Completely updated national treatment guidelines; 21+ new protocols including: ADD/ADHD, Menopause, Migraine, Multiple Schlerosis, Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults, Obesity/Gastric Bypass, New Violence entries (against Children, Older adults; Intrapartner), Amblyopia, Blepharitis, Celiac Disease, Bartholin Cyst, Plantar Fasciitis; New chapter on Pain Management includes guidelines for acute and chronic pain management and Low Back Pain; Completely updated Patient Teaching Sheets including a new entry on anticoagulation Therapy for Patients with AFib ; Key Features: Consistent presentation of content for each of the 247 disorders ensuring ease of access; Each diagnosis includes the definition, ICD-9 Code; incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam & diagnostic tests to perform, differential diagnosis to consider, plan of care including medications and follow-up care; Practice Pointers highlight highly important care points; Individual care considerations provide across the lifespan population care points for pediatric, pregnant and geriatric patients; Separate section presents procedures commonly performed in primary care settings ; Patient Teaching Sheets are written to be given directly to patients as 'take home' teaching supplements; they are perforated for ease of copying ; Includes routine health maintenance guidelines; Appendices provide guidelines on special diets, normal lab values, and Sexual Maturity Stages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8261-1812-7 (9780826118127)
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Jill C. Cash, MSN, APN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner in a Primary Care Practice in Illinois. Jill has practiced as an NP since 1996 in primary care. In addition, she taught nursing at Southeastern Illinois College (2 years), Southern Illinois University @ Edwardsville, where she taught in the FNP graduate program (3 years) and Southeast Missouri State University (4 years). Ms. Cash received an MSN in High Risk Obstetrics in 1991 as well as a Post-Master Degree in FNP and her ANCC certification as an FNP in 1996. Her professional memberships include the Am College of NPs, the National Assoc for NPs in Women's Health, The Am Academy of NPs, AWHONN and STT. She is co-author of the first edition of Family Practice Guidelines.
||Cheryl A. Glass, MSN, WHNP, RN-BC is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who currently practices as a Clinical Research Specialist for KePRO in the Medical Solutions Unit in Nashville TN and is a Clinical Instructor @ Vanderbilt Univ School of Nursing. Previously, she has been a Clinical Trainer and Trainer Manager for Healthways/American Healthways. Her previous practice as an NP was as Clinical Research Coordinator at Nashville Clinical Research and as Collaborative Clinical OB Practice with the Director and Assistant Directors of Maternal-Fetal Medicine @ Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center Dept of OB /GYN. She is certified as a Women's Health Care NP by the National Cert Corporation. She is a member of the AANP, the ACNP, the AWHONN, the NPWH, and STT. She is the author of several book chapters and is co-author of Family Practice Guidelines. She has published five refereed journal articles. In 1999, Ms. Glass was named Tennessee Chapter AWHONN Nurse of the Year.
||Cheryl A. Glass, MSN, WHNP, RN-BC is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who currently practices as a Clinical Research Specialist for KePRO in the Medical Solutions Unit in Nashville TN and is a Clinical Instructor @ Vanderbilt Univ School of Nursing. Previously, she has been a Clinical Trainer and Trainer Manager for Healthways/American Healthways. Her previous practice as an NP was as Clinical Research Coordinator at Nashville Clinical Research and as Collaborative Clinical OB Practice with the Director and Assistant Directors of Maternal-Fetal Medicine @ Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center Dept of OB /GYN. She is certified as a Women's Health Care NP by the National Cert Corporation. She is a member of the AANP, the ACNP, the AWHONN, the NPWH, and STT. She is the author of several book chapters and is co-author of Family Practice Guidelines. She has published five refereed journal articles. In 1999, Ms. Glass was named Tennessee Chapter AWHONN Nurse of the Year.