Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing

Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Third Edition is an accessible and practical reference designed to help nurses and students with daily clinical decision making. Written in collaboration with certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, pharmacists, and physicians, it fosters a team approach to health care. Divided into four areas―Pediatrics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and, Adult General Medicine―and following a lifespan approach, it utilizes the S-O-A-P (Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan) format. Additionally, the authors explore complex chronic disease management, health promotion across the lifespan, and professional and legal issues such as reimbursement, billing, and the legal scope of practice. The Third Edition has a keen focus on gerontology to accommodate the AGNP specialty and to better assist the student or clinician in caring for the aging population. The authors follow the across the life span approach and focus on common complete disorders. Certain chapters have been revised and new chapters have been added which include:Health Maintenance for Older Adults; Frailty; Common Gerontology Syndromes; Cancer Survivorship; Lipid Disorders; Acne (pediatrics section). Please note that the 2016 CDC Guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain in the United States were not yet available at the time the authors were updating the Third Edition. See the Instructor Resources tab to read a note from the authors about their recommendations for resources around these guidelines.

Geraldine (Gerri) Collins-Bride is a Health Science Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. She teaches in the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program and collaborates with the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. She is the Vice Chair of Faculty Practice in her department. Ms. Collins-Bride has been an adult primary care provider for the past 33 years, practicing at UCSF General Internal Medicine where she specializes in providing care for adults with developmental and psychiatric disabilities. She is the director of a community based faculty practice Interprofessional Primary Care Outreach for People with Mental Illness (IPCOM), a nurse managed primary care outreach practice embedded in residential mental health treatment programs in San Francisco. Ms. Collins-Bride’s areas of expertise include primary care, developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, community partnerships and interprofessional practice.

Dr. Saxe, Director of the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) program, is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing. She has been a clinical educator for over 30 years and an adult primary care NP for over 32 years. 'Dr. Saxe’s areas of expertise include primary care for medically underserved populations; inter-professional health care education; quality improvement in health care; and innovative health care professional curriculum design.' '

Karen Duderstadt is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing and Director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Program.' Her clinical practice focuses on the care of infants, children and adolescents living in low-income families.' Her doctoral work focused on access to care for children and improved health outcomes for those children with access to care in public health insurance programs.' Dr. Duderstadt has published on a wide variety of child health policy topics including childhood obesity and children’s environmental health issues. She has also published a text on Pediatric Physical Examination which is used nationally in NP programs.'

Rebekah Kaplan has been a practicing nurse-midwife since 1989 and is currently in clinical practice at San Francisco General Hospital and Mission Neighborhood Health Center.' She an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and is the Associate Education Director of their Nurse-Midwifery/Women’s Health Nurse-Practitioner Education Program.' Ms. Kaplan’s areas of educational interest are antepartum care, adolescent pregnancy, cholestasis of pregnancy, clinical preception and interprofessional education.''