Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care - E-Book: Edition 8
Feb 2027 · Elsevier Health Sciences
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Take the next step in health assessment by building your skills in diagnostic and clinical reasoning! Advanced Health Assessment & 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. This edition includes a new chapter on trauma-informed care, and content is updated throughout. 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 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 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 you 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 to find the information you need - References are available via QR codes - 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
Take the next step in health assessment by building your skills in diagnostic and clinical reasoning! Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 8th Edition, goes beyond the basic physical examination to help you learn to accurately evaluate common conditions. Organized by p...
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