Family Practice Guidelines, Fifth Edition: Edition 5

Name: Family Practice Guidelines, Fifth Edition: Edition 5
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Jill C. Cash · Cheryl A. Glass · Jenny Mullen

May 2020 · Springer Publishing Company

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This bible of family practice for primary care clinicians and students provides current national practice guidelines for professional standards of care across the life span. Concise and clearly organized, 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. Now in color with abundant images and illustrations, this fifth edition features thoroughly updated guidelines and recommendations to reflect latest in practice, as well as many new guidelines. Each of the diagnoses includes definition, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, and a care plan.

Key Features:

Presents information for disorders in consistent format for ease of use
Highlights key considerations with Practice Pointers
Provides individual care points for pediatric, pregnant, and geriatric patients
Includes 138 printable Patient Teaching Guides
Offers 18 procedure guidelines and routine health maintenance guidelines
Features appendices that provide guidelines on normal lab values, special diets, Tanner’s Sexual Maturity Stages, and teeth

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About the author

Jill C. Cash, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 33 years of experience in primary care. She currently practices at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with the Vanderbilt Medical Group at Westhaven Family Practice in Franklin, Tennessee and serves as an Associate in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She recently has been selected as the Educational Program Coordinator for the Primary Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Academy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Cheryl A. Glass, MSN, APRN, WHNP, RN-BC, practices as a clinical research specialist for KEPRO in TennCare's Medical Solutions Unit in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also adjunct faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

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