Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 8th Edition

by Joyce E. Dains, DrPH, JD, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Linda Ciofu Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN and Pamela Scheibel, MSN, RN, CPNP

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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, 8th 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. 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.

Key Features
- 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 sections 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 sections outline the types of tests that might be appropriate based on the focused history and focused physical examination
- Differential Diagnosis sections offer the most common diagnoses for each patient problem and summarize the history and physical examination findings, along with recommended laboratory and diagnostic studies. Differential Diagnosis tables provide a quick-reference summary of possible diagnoses for each patient problem
- UNIQUE! Contemporary Approaches in Primary Care Settings chapter 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
- UNIQUE! Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients chapter equips you with the necessary knowledge to properly assess and care for this underserved patient population.
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Contents

Note: TOC to be updated in planning calls to be held in Spring 2024
PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL REASONING
1. Clinical Reasoning, Evidence-Based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
2. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
3. Contemporary Approaches in Primary Care Settings

PART II COMMON SYMPTOMS IN PRIMARY CARE
4. Abdominal Pain
5. Affective Changes
6. Amenorrhea
7. Breast Lumps and Nipple Discharge
8. Breast Pain
9. Chest Pain 10 Confusion in Older Adults
11. Constipation
12. Cough
13. Diarrhea
14. Dizziness
15. Dyspnea
16. Earache
17. Fatigue
18. Fever
19. Genitourinary Problems in Patients with a Penis or Prostate Gland
20. Headache
21. Heartburn and Indigestion
22. Hoarseness
23. Limb Pain: Lower Extremity
24. Limb Pain: Upper Extremity
25. Low Back Pain
26. Nasal Symptoms and Sinus Congestion
27. Palpitations
28. Penile Discharge
29. Rashes and Skin Lesions
30. Rectal Pain, Itching, and Bleeding
31. Red Eye
32. Scrotal Pain and Masses
33. Sleep Problems
34. Sore Throat
35. Syncope
36. Urinary Incontinence
37. Urinary Problems in Patients With a Vagina and Associated Anatomical Structures
38. Vaginal Bleeding
39. Vaginal Discharge and Itching
40. Vision Loss 41 Unintentional Weight Loss or Gain

PART III POPULATION-CENTERED CARE
42. Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
43. Veterans’ Health

PART IV DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
44. Abdominal X-Ray [e-only chapter]
45. Chest X-Ray [e-only chapter] References [via QR code] Index
Authors

Joyce E. Dains, DrPH, JD, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Professor and Executive Director, Advanced Practice, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, Linda Ciofu Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA and Pamela Scheibel, MSN, RN, CPNP, Clinical Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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