Master Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care

Take your health assessment skills to the next level with the 5th Edition of Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care. This comprehensive guide goes beyond basic history and physical examination, helping you master the diagnostic reasoning process and accurately diagnose patients in primary care settings.

A Fresh Perspective on Health Assessment

Written by advanced practice nursing experts Joyce Dains, Linda Baumann, and Pamela Scheibel, this edition features a new full-color design and two new chapters on evidence-based preventive health screening and heartburn and indigestion. Develop a clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process with the help of focused history and physical examination sections, key questions, and differential diagnosis tables.

Diagnostic Reasoning Made Easy

• Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History sections use self-questions to guide you through the thinking process involved in obtaining a pertinent, relevant, problem-specific history.
• Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination sections explain how to perform 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 studies 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.

New Features and Updates

• Over 30 new Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize the scientific evidence related to the diagnosis of patient problems.
• A new Evidence-Based Preventive Health Screening chapter helps you screen for common asymptomatic conditions and promote wellness.
• A new Heartburn and Indigestion chapter addresses this common condition and includes important differential diagnoses such as myocardial infarction and cancer of the esophagus.
• Separate chapters on limb pain divide the topic by lower extremities and upper extremities, offering more focused, easy-to-locate coverage.
• New information on screening for abuse and sexual assault helps in identifying patients who might need additional support or intervention.
• Updated information on psychiatric/mental health problems reflects the latest changes in practice as well as changes to the DSM.
• Over 20 new illustrations enhance content and a full-color design makes topics easier to find.

This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners, and other primary care providers seeking to improve their health assessment and diagnostic skills.

Product Details:

ISBN-13: 9780323266253
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date: 06/23/2015
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 528