Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 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 your students to the next step in health assessment! Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 8th Edition, goes beyond the basic physical examination to help students 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 readers step-by-step through a diagnostic reasoning process to lead to a clinical diagnosis. This edition includes a new chapter on trauma-informed care, and content is updated throughout. An AJN award-winning text, this book helps your students learn to think like expert clinicians.

New to This Edition
- NEW! Trauma-Informed Care chapter presents the key principles, resources, and practical applications in primary care that will guide you through a trauma-informed history and physical examination
Key Features
- NEW Trauma-Informed Care chapter presents the key principles, resources, and practical applications in primary care that will guide you through a trauma-informed history and physical examination
- Clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process takes readers 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 students 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 students 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 and addresses telehealth, the cultural-spiritual-holistic context of primary care, adverse childhood experiences, public health surveillance, and key epidemiologic terms
- UNIQUE! Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) Patients chapter equips students with the necessary knowledge to properly assess and care for this underserved patient population
- Compact, convenient size makes it easy to carry this reference in a lab-coat pocket, and colored thumb tabs make it easier for students to find the information they need
- Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) content on advanced assessment serves as a perfect complement to Ball et al.: Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination as well as other health assessment textbooks
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Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
1. Clinical Reasoning, Evidence-based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
2. Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines
3. Contemporary Approaches in Primary Care Settings

PART 2: PRESENTING CONCERNS
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
44. Trauma Informed Care

PART IV: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND TESTING
45. The Abdominal X-ray
46. Chest X-ray
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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