Family Practice Guidelines: Third Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826197825 ISBN 13: 9780826197825

Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2014

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive family practise resource for primary care clinicians, providing current national practise guidelines for a high quality standard of care for patients across the lifespan in outpatient settings. It includes individual care guidelines for adult, child, pregnant and geriatric patients, health promotion and dietary information, procedure guidelines, national resources and comprehensive patient teaching guides. This third edition includes seven new protocols, ICD-9 Codes for billing, revised patient teaching sheets, a new chapter on pain management guidelines for patients with opioid addiction, completely updated national treatment guidelines and patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formats.

The guide includes 268 disorder guidelines organised by body system, presented in outline format for easy access. Each disorder includes definition, ICD-9 Code, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, plan of care including medications and follow-up care. Of special note are highlighted "Practice Pointers" containing critical information and "Individual Considerations" at the end of each disorder that provide specialty care points for pediatric, pregnant and geriatric populations. This resource also presents 18 procedure guidelines as well as routine health maintenance guidelines and Appendices covering special diets, normal lab values, and dental issues.

New to the Third Edition:

Seven new protocols including atrial fibulation, colorectal cancer screening guidelines, erectile dysfunction, obstructive sleep apnea, opioid addiction, peripheral vascular disease and West Nile virus:

• ICD-9 codes for billing
• 138 completely updated patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formats
• Updated national treatment guidelines throughout
• New chapter on Pain Management Guidelines regarding prescriptions for opioid addicted patients

About this title

About the Author

Jill C. Cash, MSN, APN, FNP -BC, is a Nurse Practitioner at Logan Primary Care in a rural clinical setting in Illinois. She is a Clinical Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner students in her practice for various NP clinical programmes. Her previous experience includes High Risk Obstetrics as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has taught nursing at Southeastern Illinois College Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where she taught in the FNP graduate programme and Southeast Missouri State University. Ms. Cash is co-editor of the first two editions of Family Practice Guidelines. She specialises in women's health care.

Cheryl A. Glass, MSN, WHNP, RN-BC, is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who currently practises as a Clinical Research Specialist for KePRO in TennCare's Medical Solutions Unit in Nashville TN. She is also Clinical Instructor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Previously, she was a Clinical Trainer and Trainer Manager for Healthways/American Healthways. Her previous practise 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 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of OB /GYN. Ms. Glass is the author of several book chapters and is co-editor of the first two editions of Family Practice Guidelines. She has published five refereed journal articles. In 1999, Ms. Glass was named Tennessee Chapter AWHONN Nurse of the Year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826197825
• ISBN 13: 9780826197825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1040
• Editor: Cash Jill C., Glass Cheryl A.