Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice

Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice

<p>Prepare for success in today's fast-paced, collaborative healthcare environment! Offering<b> </b>expert perspectives from a variety of primary care and nurse practitioners, <b>Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice, 5th Edition </b>helps you diagnose, treat, and manage hundreds of adult disorders.<b> </b>Care recommendations<b> </b>indicate<b> </b>when to consult with physicians or specialists, and when to refer patients to an emergency facility. This edition includes six new chapters, a fresh new design, the latest evidence-based guidelines, and a new emphasis on clinical reasoning. Combining academic and clinical expertise, an author team led by Terry Mahan Buttaro shows NPs how to provide effective, truly interdisciplinary health care.</p><ul><b><li>UNIQUE! </b><b>A collaborative perspective </b>promotes seamless continuity of care, with chapters written by NPs, physicians, PAs, and other primary care providers. </li><li><b>Comprehensive, evidence-based content</b> covers every major disorder of adults seen in the outpatient office setting, reflects today's best practices, and includes the knowledge you need for the NP/DNP level of practice.</li><li><b>A consistent format </b>in each chapter is used to describe disorders, facilitating easier learning and quick clinical reference.</li><li><b><i>Diagnostics</i> and <i>Differential Diagnosis</i> boxes</b> provide a quick reference for diagnosing disorders and making care management decisions.</li><li><b>Complementary and alternative therapies</b> are addressed where supported by solid research evidence.</li><li><b>Referral icons </b>highlight situations calling for specialist referral or emergency referral.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>NEW chapters </b>cover topics including transitional care, risk management, LGBTQ patient care, bullous pemphigoid, pulmonary embolism, and dysphagia.</li><li><b>NEW! An emphasis on clinical reasoning </b>helps you develop skills in diagnosis and treatment, with coverage moving away from pathophysiology and toward diagnostic reasoning and disease management ― including pharmacologic management. </li><li><b>NEW focus on interdisciplinary care</b> underscores the importance of interprofessional education and practice, and includes <i>Interdisciplinary Management</i> features.</li><li><b>UPDATED chapters </b>reflect<b> </b>the latest literature and evidence-based treatment guidelines, including new content on the Affordable Care Act as well as new coverage of patient satisfaction metrics, quality metrics, value-based purchasing, pharmacogenetics/genomics, and teen pregnancy and abnormal pregnancy.</li><li><b>NEW quick-reference features </b>make it easier to<b> </b>locate important information, through colorful section tabs, bulleted summaries, additional algorithms, a more logical table of contents, an Index to Standardized Treatment Guidelines, and a Reference to Common Laboratory Values.</li> </ul>