Advanced health assessment of women : skills, procedures, and management /
The only text to focus specifically on advanced health assessment/management of women. This authoritative text for busy clinicians, advanced practice students, and faculty delivers essential content focused on improving the quality of healthcare provided to women/persons with a vagina across the li...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Publishing Company,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition |
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| Summary: | The only text to focus specifically on advanced health assessment/management of women. This authoritative text for busy clinicians, advanced practice students, and faculty delivers essential content focused on improving the quality of healthcare provided to women/persons with a vagina across the lifespan. Brimming with new and updated content, the fifth edition reflects the most current evidence-based clinical practice guidelines available. It includes 14 new chapters written by experts in their field and the addition of disease management content, especially medications. Chapters are enhanced with management/pharmacology summary charts and case studies with discussion questions. The use of two colors improves readability, and amplified Instructor Resources include key statistics/epidemiology, learning objectives, suggested student activities and self-assessment questions, and UAB videos. Using a clear, concise outline format, this user-friendly text delivers quick, comprehensive information regarding the health assessment and management of women/persons with a vagina. It defines the role, skills, and scope of practice of different health providers and illuminates a variety of assessment skills, techniques, and procedures used by advanced practice clinicians in everyday practice. Sample assessment forms are integrated throughout along with numerous educational handouts for patients. Discussion of techniques includes a comprehensive list of requisite equipment and information on patient prep and recommended follow-up. Boxes, tables, and figures throughout reinforce key information. -- Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 628 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0826179622 9780826179623 |