Offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient's chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings.
10 minute steps for stressed healthcare professionals
This book offers simple practical advice on how to manage the stress and exhaustion that often come with working in primary care. The authors show how making small changes in key life areas can have a surprisingly significant impact on mood and can help improve our wellbeing, all in 10 minutes a day.
Written specifically for the needs of family and adult nursing students, medical students, and primary care practitioners in Canada, this ""bible"" of family practice in America - named a 2013 Doody's core title - now provides current Canadian practice protocols for professional standards of care across the lifespan.
Revised and updated, the second edition of this practical resource remains the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.
This is a quick-access guide for outlining psychopharmacologic drugs for major DSM-IV-R disorders, and is an ideal reference for primary care providers to prescribe and monitor in advanced practice settings. Special conditions are addressed for prescribing medications for sleep disorders, post natal depression, and age-specific disorders.
Written by a GP who has passed the exam, the previous edition of CSA Scenarios for the MRCGP rapidly became the bestselling CSA book on the market. This edition is updated and revised, with new cases added.
A comprehensive handbook covering clinical infectious disease for students, residents, primary care medical providers, nurses, and PAs. Written in outline format with short, focused chapters, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly ......
Concise and clearly organised, this resource features detailed, step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting, information on health promotion, care guidelines, dietary information, information on culturally responsive care, patient resources, and abundant patient-education handouts.
This easy-access clinical guide to over 70 commonly seen symptoms describes a step-by-step process for obtaining a reliable patient history, choosing the appropriate physical exam, and using the patient history and physical exam findings to form a differential diagnosis. The second edition continues to include the case study approach, and is ......
