Full Description
A major family health text with a nursing focus for the advanced practice nurse and/or case manager. It provides an innovative approach to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and includes the basic principles of disease and treatment and the rationale for selecting tests.
Contents
Part 1 Caring-based nursingtransformative model for advanced practice nursing; population-based caring; culturally-based caring; health promotion; the art of diagnosis and treatment; caring-based outcomes. Part 2 Caring-based nursing - the science: neurological problems; skin problems; eyes, ears, nose and throat problems; respiratory problems; cardiovascular problems; abdominal problems; renal problems; male genitourinary problems; female genitourinary problems; haematologic and immune problems; psychosocial problems; emergency problems. Part 3 Advanced practice nursing - the practice: long-term care; palliative care; the 15-minute hour - a short-term approach to psychotherapy in primary care; evidence-based practice; legal and ethical issues of a caring-based practice; the business of the practice; putting caring into practice - caring for self.
