"Collins-Bride & Saxe's Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing, Fourth 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 lifespanapproach, 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 Fourth 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)"--
Collins-Bride & Saxe's Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing, Fourth Edition is an accessible and practical reference designed to support nurses and students in daily clinical decision making. Written by an interdisciplinary team of APRNs, it emphasizes collaboration for optimal patient-centered care and follows a lifespan approach with content divided into four clinical areas-Pediatrics, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Obstetrics, and Adult-Gerontology. To support varying advanced practice roles, the authors utilize the S-O-A-P (Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan) format for an organized and accessible teaching and learning experience.The updated and revised Fourth Edition emphasizes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and the importance of understanding the unique needs of diverse patient populations. This text considers the ways that racism, homophobia/transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination impact our patient populations and how nurses can work as allies to ensure quality patient-centered care.
