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Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care in Bloomington, MN
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Take the next step in health assessment by building your skills in diagnostic and clinical reasoning!
Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 7th Edition
goes beyond the basic physical examination to help you learn to accurately evaluate common conditions. Organized by patient symptoms or complaints, the book follows a systematic approach beginning with a chief concern rather than a specific diagnosis or disease entity, then guides you step-by-step through a diagnostic reasoning process to lead to a clinical diagnosis. This edition includes new chapters on veterans’ health and on contemporary approaches in primary care settings, as well as updated content on issues such as race, ethnicity, and gender identity. Written by a team of advanced practitioners led by Joyce E. Dains, this
AJN
award-winning text helps you learn to think like an expert clinician.
Clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process
takes you to the next step of health assessment — beyond basic history and physical examination to diagnostic reasoning and clinical diagnosis.
Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History
sections
use "self-questions" to walk you through the thinking process involved in obtaining a pertinent, relevant, problem-specific history that will assist in differential diagnosis.
Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination
explain how to perform more advanced diagnostic techniques and interpret the findings.
Key Questions
guide you through assessment and toward an accurate diagnosis by listing questions to ask the patient, followed by explanations of what the patient's responses might signify.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Studies
outline the types of tests that might be appropriate based on the focused history and focused physical examination.
Differential Diagnosis
offer the most common diagnoses for each patient problem and summarize the history and physical examination findings, along with recommended laboratory and diagnostic studies.
tables
provide a quick-reference summary of possible diagnoses for each patient problem.
UNIQUE!
Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) Patients
chapter
equips you with the necessary knowledge to properly assess and care for this underserved patient population.
Content on pediatrics
is integrated throughout to give a true lifespan focus.
Information on screening for abuse and sexual assault
helps you identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
helps you to screen for common asymptomatic conditions and promote wellness.
helps identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
List of Chapters by Body System
inside the front cover provides an alternate means of accessing book content.
Compact,
convenient size
makes it easy to carry this reference in a lab-coat pocket, and colored thumb tabs make it easier to find the information you need.
Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) content on advanced assessment
serves as a perfect complement to Ball et al.:
Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination
and other health assessment textbooks.
NEW! Updated content
throughout
reflects the latest evidence-based approaches to clinical diagnosis and diagnostic reasoning.
NEW and UNIQUE!
Contemporary Approaches in Primary Care Settings
applies public health principles to primary care in the era of COVID-19, and also includes coverage of telehealth/telemedicine, screenings, immunizations, epidemics and pandemics, health promotion, basic epidemiological terminology, and the cultural-spiritual-holistic context of primary care.
NEW! Updated content on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity
includes special sensitivity to healthcare inequality related to social determinants of health.
Veterans' Health
covers the health concerns of veterans, such as military sexual trauma (MST) and hazardous exposures.
Scrotal Pain and Masses
addresses this common problem seen in primary care settings.
NEW! Updated
Evidence-Based Practice
boxes
summarize the latest scientific literature related to the diagnosis of patient problems.
Take the next step in health assessment by building your skills in diagnostic and clinical reasoning!
Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 7th Edition
goes beyond the basic physical examination to help you learn to accurately evaluate common conditions. Organized by patient symptoms or complaints, the book follows a systematic approach beginning with a chief concern rather than a specific diagnosis or disease entity, then guides you step-by-step through a diagnostic reasoning process to lead to a clinical diagnosis. This edition includes new chapters on veterans’ health and on contemporary approaches in primary care settings, as well as updated content on issues such as race, ethnicity, and gender identity. Written by a team of advanced practitioners led by Joyce E. Dains, this
AJN
award-winning text helps you learn to think like an expert clinician.
Clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process
takes you to the next step of health assessment — beyond basic history and physical examination to diagnostic reasoning and clinical diagnosis.
Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History
sections
use "self-questions" to walk you through the thinking process involved in obtaining a pertinent, relevant, problem-specific history that will assist in differential diagnosis.
Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination
explain how to perform more advanced diagnostic techniques and interpret the findings.
Key Questions
guide you through assessment and toward an accurate diagnosis by listing questions to ask the patient, followed by explanations of what the patient's responses might signify.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Studies
outline the types of tests that might be appropriate based on the focused history and focused physical examination.
Differential Diagnosis
offer the most common diagnoses for each patient problem and summarize the history and physical examination findings, along with recommended laboratory and diagnostic studies.
tables
provide a quick-reference summary of possible diagnoses for each patient problem.
UNIQUE!
Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) Patients
chapter
equips you with the necessary knowledge to properly assess and care for this underserved patient population.
Content on pediatrics
is integrated throughout to give a true lifespan focus.
Information on screening for abuse and sexual assault
helps you identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
helps you to screen for common asymptomatic conditions and promote wellness.
helps identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
List of Chapters by Body System
inside the front cover provides an alternate means of accessing book content.
Compact,
convenient size
makes it easy to carry this reference in a lab-coat pocket, and colored thumb tabs make it easier to find the information you need.
Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) content on advanced assessment
serves as a perfect complement to Ball et al.:
Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination
and other health assessment textbooks.
NEW! Updated content
throughout
reflects the latest evidence-based approaches to clinical diagnosis and diagnostic reasoning.
NEW and UNIQUE!
Contemporary Approaches in Primary Care Settings
applies public health principles to primary care in the era of COVID-19, and also includes coverage of telehealth/telemedicine, screenings, immunizations, epidemics and pandemics, health promotion, basic epidemiological terminology, and the cultural-spiritual-holistic context of primary care.
NEW! Updated content on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity
includes special sensitivity to healthcare inequality related to social determinants of health.
Veterans' Health
covers the health concerns of veterans, such as military sexual trauma (MST) and hazardous exposures.
Scrotal Pain and Masses
addresses this common problem seen in primary care settings.
NEW! Updated
Evidence-Based Practice
boxes
summarize the latest scientific literature related to the diagnosis of patient problems.
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