Pocket Reference Guide for Healthcare Providers, NPs, PAs & Other Medical Professionals: A useful approach to Emergent/Urgent & Ambulatory Care (My Pocket Guru Medical Quick Reference Series) - Softcover

Shea, Sheila Sanning; Hoyt, K. Sue

9781502870605: Pocket Reference Guide for Healthcare Providers, NPs, PAs & Other Medical Professionals: A useful approach to Emergent/Urgent & Ambulatory Care (My Pocket Guru Medical Quick Reference Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502870606 ISBN 13: 9781502870605

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

This 2ND EDITION of the My PocketGuru Pocket Reference Guide (formerly, "Emergency Pocket Reference Guide") for NPs, PAs, and other Medical Professionals written by Sheila Sanning Shea, NP and K. Sue Hoyt, NP is the essential quick reference guide for "on-the-go" NP/PA! This easy-to-use pocket guide contains all you need clinical information and provides general documentation/dictation templates for both, adult and pediatric patients (medical and trauma) and a Review of Systems (ROS) section. Arranged in a user friendly format, the content ranges from head-to-toe and includes sections on skin rashes/lesions, headache/head injury, dizziness/weakness, altered mental status, eye pain/injury, HEENT pain/injury, dental pain/injury, neck pain/ cervical injury, shortness of breath/PE/DVT, chest pain/injury, abdominal pain/injury, 1st trimester bleeding, GU pain/injury, low back pain/injury, extremity (shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, foot) pain/injury/ lacerations/wounds/bites, abscess/cellulitis, and other common complaints encountered in primary, urgent, and emergent care. Each section includes history questions, physical exam parameters, potential differential diagnoses/medical decision making to consider, patient management (including common medications and their dosages), and documentation guidelines. There are also common diagnostic test interpretation dictation templates for 12 Lead ECG and chest and extremity X-rays. Other documentation templates for common procedures such as, laceration repair, I&D, and radial head subluxation, dislocation/relocation, and splinting and included to address billing requirements. This is the ONLY pocket guide that provides Medical Decision Making considerations in each section that emphasizes accurate documentation! In this handy pocket guide there are also over 30 figures and illustrations which provide a quick anatomy review and tables with summary information relevant to a particular section. Each section also has boxed content with "Tips" and "Don't Miss" clinical pearls. The 2nd edition includes additional and updated illustrations as well as important updates to most sections. Check out our website: MYPOCKETGURU.COM for more sample pages and other titles coming soon.

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