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Adult-Gerontology Practice Guidelines
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Cash, Jill C.; Glass, Cheryl A.
- Publisher:
- Springer Publishing Company
- ISBN:
- 978-0-82-612762-4
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 92
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Description
The first book to encompass adult-gerontology practice guidelines for primary care, this comprehensive resource is designed as a text and reference for health care practitioners specializing as adult-gerontology nurse practitioners (A-GNP).
It provides current national practice guidelines for delivering high-quality primary health care to adult, older adult, and pregnant patients in the outpatient setting. The book delivers chapters that focus on the older adult person, including a chapter describing the major effects of aging on each body system.
Key features:
- Focuses specifically on the adult, older adult, and pregnant patient populations
- Delivers consistent presentation of more than 240 disorders by body system for ease of access
- Step-by-step review of 19 commonly used procedures
- ""Practice Pointers"" indicate highly important care points
- Includes more than 140 extensive Patient Teaching Guides for ""take home"" information
- Useful as a review text when preparing to take the A-GNP certification course and exam
It provides current national practice guidelines for delivering high-quality primary health care to adult, older adult, and pregnant patients in the outpatient setting. The book delivers chapters that focus on the older adult person, including a chapter describing the major effects of aging on each body system.
Key features:
- Focuses specifically on the adult, older adult, and pregnant patient populations
- Delivers consistent presentation of more than 240 disorders by body system for ease of access
- Step-by-step review of 19 commonly used procedures
- ""Practice Pointers"" indicate highly important care points
- Includes more than 140 extensive Patient Teaching Guides for ""take home"" information
- Useful as a review text when preparing to take the A-GNP certification course and exam
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Publishing Company
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Cash, Jill C.; Glass, Cheryl A.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-82-612762-4
- Specialty:
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- Geriatrics & Gerontology
- Gerontology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 1112
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 92