Using a quick-reference, encyclopedic format, Anesthesia for Genetic, Metabolic, and Dysmorphic Syndromes of Childhood, 3rd Edition, presents the anesthetic implications of a plethora of distinct syndromes, with up-to-date information, complete and current bibliographies, and more than 140 clinical photographs. You’ll find practical information on common and uncommon manifestations in the major anatomic areas, as well as what you need to know for safe and effective anesthesia of both children and adults.Key FeaturesPresents each syndrome in an easy-to-follow format: name, synonym(s), and common and uncommon manifestations in each organ system, followed by anesthetic considerations, including which syndromes have no anesthetic implications.Lists syndromes and synonyms alphabetically, and cross-references synonyms for quick look-up.Incorporates an overview of the pathology and relevant clinical findings for each syndrome, and highlights considerations in perioperative management.Features a helpful glossary at the beginning of the book, as well as diagrams that review pertinent biochemical pathways.Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to:Complete content with enhanced navigationPowerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the webCross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Confidently prepare for the Acute Care Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP®) exam and excel on the job with help from the Lippincott Certification Review: Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner . Presented in an easy-to-read bulleted format, this all-inclusive guide covers all exam topics, from system-based pediatric disorders to family and psychological issues. Offering professional advice, test-taking strategies, and practice exams, this is the essential text no pediatric or acute care nurse should be without.You will ace the CPNP exam and grasp the fundamentals of acute care pediatric nursing with …More than 750 multiple-choice questions in exam format – 350+ end-of-chapter questions and two 200-question practice exams, with answers/explanations· Expert guidance on pediatric patient management - Current data and practice tools for diagnosing and managing complex acute, chronic, and critical pediatric conditions in inpatient and outpatient, emergency, and home care settings, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration· Full coverage of topics including:· System-based problems - Scientific background and practice guidelines for managing pediatric disorders, with each chapter addressing a different body system· Age-related information - Guidance on meeting the specific physiological and psychological needs of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults· Pediatric patient and family issues - Vital information on development, nutrition, and sleep; guidelines for family-centered care, transitional care, home care, and more· Professional issues - Current data on quality improvement, safety, diversity, and health policy; official guidance on certification, licensure, credentialing, documentation, billing, and more

Selected as a Doody’s Essential Title for 2025​!Since 1972, Patterson’s Allergic Diseases has been the go-to reference for healthcare practitioners looking for a comprehensive and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disorders. This eighth edition focuses on patient evaluation and management, and covers immunologic mechanisms, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and diagnostic techniques. Many contributors hail from outside the field of allergy-immunology, providing an invaluable non-specialist perspective on essential clinical practices. Discusses the evaluation, treatment, and physiology of common allergies and allergic reactions: insect stings, asthma, food allergies, as well as pulmonary, respiratory, and skin reactions. Designed to help primary care providers, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants identify an allergy—such as anaphylaxis, urticaria and angioedema—confirm a diagnosis, find effective therapies, or prepare for board review exams. Includes new chapters on laboratory tests and personalized medicine, discussions on new allergy & immunology practice parameters, and the latest information on biologic therapies, drug allergy pathogenesis, environmental controls, and diagnostic testing. Incorporates recent evidence-based guidelines, including the Practice Parameters from The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Practice Parameters. Now in color to add clarity and depth to tables, figures, and illustrations. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities!Read directly on your preferred device(s ), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone Easily convert to audiobook , powering your content with natural language text-to-speech Adapt for unique reading needs , supporting learning disabilities, visual/auditory impairments, second-language or literacy challenges, and more

The practice of tissue expander/implant based pre-pectoral breast reconstruction holds great promise for superior cosmetic results, less pain, and a shorter recovery period. Pre-Pectoral Techniques in Reconstructive Breast Surgery is the first reference to cover this timely area in depth, offering step-by-step descriptions of current procedures. Shares the knowledge and expertise of well-known plastic surgeons who have experience in pre-pectoral techniques.Features comprehensive coverage of all aspects of surgery; including illustrated, step-by-step descriptions of procedures.Covers assessment of tissue perfusion, current evidence in pre-pectoral reconstruction, the roles of ADM and fat grafting, patient selection, complications, and postoperative considerations.Discusses radio therapy with variety of patient presentations including, failed breast conservation therapy patient requiring mastectomy, planned radio therapy patient undergoing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction, and delayed reconstruction patient following mastectomy desiring reconstruction. Enhance Your eBook Reading Experience:Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

Lewin Gastrointestinal Pathology and Its Clinical Implications , Second EditionThis comprehensive, two-volume resource highlights the practical aspects of the pathology of biopsies and gross specimens, the clinical/pathological correlation, and differential diagnoses, and the ways in which these affect the management of patients with gastrointestinal disorders. The authors provide valuable insights on many important areas of gastrointestinal pathology, and openly address controversies within the specialty. This all-inclusive work stands alone in its illustrative quality and in its emphasis on the clinical implications of patient management as related to pathologic findings.The Second Edition has been completely revised to reflect two decades of advances in the field. The book’s focus on clinical/pathological correlations and differential diagnoses emphasizes their affect on patient management. Major revisions of the chapters on colitis and gastritis feature new approaches to treatment. Over 2100 full-color illustrations highlight pathologic features to sharpen diagnostic skills and guide treatment choices. NEW to the Second Edition…Completely revised content reflects two decades of advances in the field.Focus on clinical/pathological correlations and differential diagnoses emphasizes their affect on patient managementMajor revisions of the chapters on colitis and gastritis feature new approaches to treatment.Over 2100 full-color illustrations highlight pathologic features to sharpen diagnostic skills and guide treatment choices.Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to:Complete content with enhanced navigationA powerful search that pulls results from content in the book, your notes, and even the webCross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future usePick up your copy today!

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023!In vivid, step-by-step illustrative detail, Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy, Second Edition thoroughly describes arthroscopic techniques used in the surgical treatment of foot and ankle disorders. Now fully up-to-date, this edition details the advances that have affected the use of arthroscopy in foot and ankle surgery in recent years. The text covers both the basics of equipment, instrumentation and surgical anatomy, as well as the practical steps surgeons must take to optimize results for each procedure.Key Features: Comprehensive, current coverage of the basics of ankle arthroscopy, instrumentation and anesthesia, surgical arthroscopy of the foot and ankle, rehabilitation, complications, future developments, and more. New chapters include: Regional Anesthesia for Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy, Subtalar Joint Pathology, Prone Arthroscopy for Posterior Ankle and Subtalar Joint Pathology, Radiofrequency Use in Ankle and Foot Arthroscopy, Endoscopic Plantar Fascia Release, Gastrocnemius Recession and Intermetatarsal Nerve Decompression, and Endoscopic Procedures for Retrocalcaneal Bursitis, Achilles Tendon, Posterior Tibial Tendon, Peroneal Tendons and Flexor Hallucis Longus Tendon. Clear, straightforward discussions cover the basics of surgical anatomy, while practical tips and pearls let you learn from master surgeons. Abundant radiographs and color line drawings explain the techniques and make complex concepts easy to grasp. Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like: Complete content with enhanced navigationPowerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

This pioneering book on the clinician-patient alliance - written in a fast-paced, highly enjoyable writing style - shows medical, nursing, physician assistant, and clinical pharmacy students the importance of the principles behind shared decision making and how to transform those principles into clinical practice. Shawn Christopher Shea, MD, an internationally respected author, has a superb ability to perceive the complexities of clinical interviewing as applied to shared decision making, while creating frameworks and interviewing techniques that illuminate, clarify, and simplify those complexities so that young clinicians can immediately apply them. This book demonstrates the art of enhancing the therapeutic alliance by addressing one of the most, if not the , most important of interviewing tasks with regard to achieving successful healing: collaboratively talking with patients about their medications and effectively enhancing their medication adherence.The Medication Interest Model (MIM) was developed by watching clinicians and case managers talk with their patients about their medications and holding over 150 MIM workshops with primary care physicians, nurses, mental health professionals and other allied health professionals. The result is a book filled with the type of wisdom and knowledge that can only be gained by learning from the skilled clinicians who talk with patients on a daily basis about their medications. Students (as well as experienced clinicians) will find this wonderfully practical resource to be a text they will frequently pull down from their shelves to absorb its wisdom long after they have left their training programs.This highly acclaimed, Doody’s Core title has been thoroughly updated and expanded for the second edition: The Medication Interest Model (MIM), its motivational theory (the Choice Triad), and its over 100 easily learned and practical interviewing techniques are described and demonstrated with clear examples and compelling illustrative interview dialogue.Interviewing principles and techniques are easily learned and used, providing an ideal introduction to medical, nursing, physician assistant, and clinical pharmacy students on how to effectively create the therapeutic alliance while enhancing medication adherence.Provides the most up to date information and nuances of the Medication Interest Model (MIM) from its creator and developer, a clinical model explicitly designed for effective use in the hectic clinical settings of primary care clinics, specialty clinics, and hospital units .Presents more than 100 specific interviewing techniques that are equally useful for medications for all disease states – from hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, and congestive heart failure to cancer, AIDS, and PTSD .Clearly shows how words powerfully impact whether or not patients are interested in taking medications and staying on them by providing the exact phrasings of over 100 interviewing techniques demonstrating, with clinical examples and clinical dialogue, all of their nuances for immediate, everyday practicality.Contains a wealth of relevant information for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, case managers, and clinical pharmacists across disciplines from primary care to specialists in endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology and psychiatry – and is equally valuable and relevant to both students and experienced clinicians.User-friendly Tip Archive, with the exact wording of all 100 of the tips shown in the easily accessed e-book for quick referral by medical and nursing students during clinical rotations.Enhance Your eBook Reading Experience:Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and the family.Some exciting features of the 5th edition include:The Nurse Speaks/The Nursing Student Speaks is a real-life, clinical, community-based nursing example opening each chapter.Healthy People 2020, the foundation for the nation's 10-year health objectives, is examined and applied wherever relevant, providing the most up-to-date information on community issues such as access to care, obesity, emerging infectious diseases, technological advances, and alternative complementary therapies.Client Situations in Practice boxes examine real life community-based nursing situations and solutions specific to each chapter's content.Assessment Tools boxes provide opportunities to apply learning and test knowledge gained.

Awarded Third Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Adult Primary Care CategoryCanadian Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach , second edition, reflects a progressive and modern view of Canadian nursing practice, featuring innovative elements that facilitate comprehensive examinations, and unique features that assist with application and analysis, including new symptom analysis boxes. The text reflects Canadian best practices, standards of health promotion and screening guidelines as well as Canadian standards of communication and documentation. In addition to the Canadian nursing research provided for each chapter, there are focused health promotion topics and critical thinking questions that reflect the NCLEX. Each chapter also includes a threaded case study that requires critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning to analyze data, document, plan care, and communicate findings culminating with a “Putting it All Together” feature.  Additional features and online resources round out the book and build on the in-text threaded cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures.Outstanding Features Include:Current, comprehensive coverage familiarizes you with Canadian best practices, standards of health promotion and screening guidelines, as well as Canadian standards of communication and documentation.Threaded case studies in each chapter guide you through the assessment process for commonly encountered scenarios to hone your clinical decision-making capabilities. Putting it All Together features strengthen your data analysis, documentation, care planning, and communication skills. Critical Thinking Questions test your understanding and prepare you for success on the NCLEX®.Additional online resources reinforce essential concepts through review questions, animations, learning objectives, videos and more. 

Principios de farmacología. Bases fisiopatológicas del tratamiento farmacológico ofrece un enfoque integral, basado en sistemas y mecanismos, de la farmacología contemporánea y la investigación, así como del desarrollo de nuevos agentes farmacológicos.Para esta cuarta edición se han realizado cambios importantes en los capítulos de receptores, así como en los de farmacocinética y farmacodinamia. El contenido y las evaluaciones se han actualizado y revisado de forma integral y se ha incorporado nueva información entre la que destacan los avances más recientes en áreas de gran desarrollo terapéutico como la farmacogenética y la farmacogenómica.La obra se organiza en seis secciones que abordan los principios básicos de los diferentes agentes farmacológicos organizados por sistema o sitio de acción y tres secciones adicionales sobre el desarrollo de nuevos agentes, toxicología y el futuro de la disciplina. Cada uno de sus apartados se caracteriza por su formato de lectura sencilla y amigable, así como por su estructura que facilita la correlación entre los aspectos químico, bioquímico y fisiológico de la farmacología con su aplicación en la práctica clínica.

Conciso, portátil y fácil de usar, Manual Washington de especialidades clínicas. Neumología proporciona acceso rápido a la información esencial necesaria para evaluar a los pacientes con neumopatías. La 2.ª edición ofrece el contenido más actualizado sobre el diagnóstico, la investigación y el tratamiento de las neumopatías agudas y crónicas más comunes, incluyendo la cobertura de tecnologías avanzadas y fármacos más recientes. Ideal para estudiantes de medicina en rotaciones y residentes, el manual también es útil como recurso de primera línea para internistas y otros proveedores de atención primaria.Características principales: Desarrollo ampliado de pruebas diagnósticas y tratamientosReorganización del formato para una búsqueda rápida y sencilla de la informaciónInformación clínica práctica para diagnosticar y tratar a una amplia variedad de pacientesCobertura integral de asma, EPOC, enfermedad pulmonar intersticial, hipertensión pulmonar, fibrosis quística, infecciones pulmonares, trasplante de pulmón, trastornos respiratorios del sueño y otras afecciones pulmonares comunesSíntomas, signos y problemas encontrados en la práctica diaria en un formato de referencia rápida con viñetasReferencias actualizadas para información adicional sobre un tema en particular.Escrito por becarios y profesores junior de la Facultad de Medicina de la Washington University para abordar de manera efectiva las experiencias clínicas de la vida real

Using a quick-reference, encyclopedic format, Anesthesia for Genetic, Metabolic, and Dysmorphic Syndromes of Childhood, 3rd Edition, presents the anesthetic implications of a plethora of distinct syndromes, with up-to-date information, complete and current bibliographies, and more than 140 clinical photographs. You’ll find practical information on common and uncommon manifestations in the major anatomic areas, as well as what you need to know for safe and effective anesthesia of both children and adults.Key FeaturesPresents each syndrome in an easy-to-follow format: name, synonym(s), and common and uncommon manifestations in each organ system, followed by anesthetic considerations, including which syndromes have no anesthetic implications.Lists syndromes and synonyms alphabetically, and cross-references synonyms for quick look-up.Incorporates an overview of the pathology and relevant clinical findings for each syndrome, and highlights considerations in perioperative management.Features a helpful glossary at the beginning of the book, as well as diagrams that review pertinent biochemical pathways.Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to:Complete content with enhanced navigationPowerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the webCross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Confidently prepare for the Acute Care Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP®) exam and excel on the job with help from the Lippincott Certification Review: Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner . Presented in an easy-to-read bulleted format, this all-inclusive guide covers all exam topics, from system-based pediatric disorders to family and psychological issues. Offering professional advice, test-taking strategies, and practice exams, this is the essential text no pediatric or acute care nurse should be without.You will ace the CPNP exam and grasp the fundamentals of acute care pediatric nursing with …More than 750 multiple-choice questions in exam format – 350+ end-of-chapter questions and two 200-question practice exams, with answers/explanations· Expert guidance on pediatric patient management - Current data and practice tools for diagnosing and managing complex acute, chronic, and critical pediatric conditions in inpatient and outpatient, emergency, and home care settings, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration· Full coverage of topics including:· System-based problems - Scientific background and practice guidelines for managing pediatric disorders, with each chapter addressing a different body system· Age-related information - Guidance on meeting the specific physiological and psychological needs of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults· Pediatric patient and family issues - Vital information on development, nutrition, and sleep; guidelines for family-centered care, transitional care, home care, and more· Professional issues - Current data on quality improvement, safety, diversity, and health policy; official guidance on certification, licensure, credentialing, documentation, billing, and more

Selected as a Doody’s Essential Title for 2025​!Since 1972, Patterson’s Allergic Diseases has been the go-to reference for healthcare practitioners looking for a comprehensive and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disorders. This eighth edition focuses on patient evaluation and management, and covers immunologic mechanisms, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and diagnostic techniques. Many contributors hail from outside the field of allergy-immunology, providing an invaluable non-specialist perspective on essential clinical practices. Discusses the evaluation, treatment, and physiology of common allergies and allergic reactions: insect stings, asthma, food allergies, as well as pulmonary, respiratory, and skin reactions. Designed to help primary care providers, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants identify an allergy—such as anaphylaxis, urticaria and angioedema—confirm a diagnosis, find effective therapies, or prepare for board review exams. Includes new chapters on laboratory tests and personalized medicine, discussions on new allergy & immunology practice parameters, and the latest information on biologic therapies, drug allergy pathogenesis, environmental controls, and diagnostic testing. Incorporates recent evidence-based guidelines, including the Practice Parameters from The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Practice Parameters. Now in color to add clarity and depth to tables, figures, and illustrations. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities!Read directly on your preferred device(s ), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone Easily convert to audiobook , powering your content with natural language text-to-speech Adapt for unique reading needs , supporting learning disabilities, visual/auditory impairments, second-language or literacy challenges, and more

The practice of tissue expander/implant based pre-pectoral breast reconstruction holds great promise for superior cosmetic results, less pain, and a shorter recovery period. Pre-Pectoral Techniques in Reconstructive Breast Surgery is the first reference to cover this timely area in depth, offering step-by-step descriptions of current procedures. Shares the knowledge and expertise of well-known plastic surgeons who have experience in pre-pectoral techniques.Features comprehensive coverage of all aspects of surgery; including illustrated, step-by-step descriptions of procedures.Covers assessment of tissue perfusion, current evidence in pre-pectoral reconstruction, the roles of ADM and fat grafting, patient selection, complications, and postoperative considerations.Discusses radio therapy with variety of patient presentations including, failed breast conservation therapy patient requiring mastectomy, planned radio therapy patient undergoing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction, and delayed reconstruction patient following mastectomy desiring reconstruction. Enhance Your eBook Reading Experience:Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

Lewin Gastrointestinal Pathology and Its Clinical Implications , Second EditionThis comprehensive, two-volume resource highlights the practical aspects of the pathology of biopsies and gross specimens, the clinical/pathological correlation, and differential diagnoses, and the ways in which these affect the management of patients with gastrointestinal disorders. The authors provide valuable insights on many important areas of gastrointestinal pathology, and openly address controversies within the specialty. This all-inclusive work stands alone in its illustrative quality and in its emphasis on the clinical implications of patient management as related to pathologic findings.The Second Edition has been completely revised to reflect two decades of advances in the field. The book’s focus on clinical/pathological correlations and differential diagnoses emphasizes their affect on patient management. Major revisions of the chapters on colitis and gastritis feature new approaches to treatment. Over 2100 full-color illustrations highlight pathologic features to sharpen diagnostic skills and guide treatment choices. NEW to the Second Edition…Completely revised content reflects two decades of advances in the field.Focus on clinical/pathological correlations and differential diagnoses emphasizes their affect on patient managementMajor revisions of the chapters on colitis and gastritis feature new approaches to treatment.Over 2100 full-color illustrations highlight pathologic features to sharpen diagnostic skills and guide treatment choices.Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to:Complete content with enhanced navigationA powerful search that pulls results from content in the book, your notes, and even the webCross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future usePick up your copy today!

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023!In vivid, step-by-step illustrative detail, Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy, Second Edition thoroughly describes arthroscopic techniques used in the surgical treatment of foot and ankle disorders. Now fully up-to-date, this edition details the advances that have affected the use of arthroscopy in foot and ankle surgery in recent years. The text covers both the basics of equipment, instrumentation and surgical anatomy, as well as the practical steps surgeons must take to optimize results for each procedure.Key Features: Comprehensive, current coverage of the basics of ankle arthroscopy, instrumentation and anesthesia, surgical arthroscopy of the foot and ankle, rehabilitation, complications, future developments, and more. New chapters include: Regional Anesthesia for Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy, Subtalar Joint Pathology, Prone Arthroscopy for Posterior Ankle and Subtalar Joint Pathology, Radiofrequency Use in Ankle and Foot Arthroscopy, Endoscopic Plantar Fascia Release, Gastrocnemius Recession and Intermetatarsal Nerve Decompression, and Endoscopic Procedures for Retrocalcaneal Bursitis, Achilles Tendon, Posterior Tibial Tendon, Peroneal Tendons and Flexor Hallucis Longus Tendon. Clear, straightforward discussions cover the basics of surgical anatomy, while practical tips and pearls let you learn from master surgeons. Abundant radiographs and color line drawings explain the techniques and make complex concepts easy to grasp. Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like: Complete content with enhanced navigationPowerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

This pioneering book on the clinician-patient alliance - written in a fast-paced, highly enjoyable writing style - shows medical, nursing, physician assistant, and clinical pharmacy students the importance of the principles behind shared decision making and how to transform those principles into clinical practice. Shawn Christopher Shea, MD, an internationally respected author, has a superb ability to perceive the complexities of clinical interviewing as applied to shared decision making, while creating frameworks and interviewing techniques that illuminate, clarify, and simplify those complexities so that young clinicians can immediately apply them. This book demonstrates the art of enhancing the therapeutic alliance by addressing one of the most, if not the , most important of interviewing tasks with regard to achieving successful healing: collaboratively talking with patients about their medications and effectively enhancing their medication adherence.The Medication Interest Model (MIM) was developed by watching clinicians and case managers talk with their patients about their medications and holding over 150 MIM workshops with primary care physicians, nurses, mental health professionals and other allied health professionals. The result is a book filled with the type of wisdom and knowledge that can only be gained by learning from the skilled clinicians who talk with patients on a daily basis about their medications. Students (as well as experienced clinicians) will find this wonderfully practical resource to be a text they will frequently pull down from their shelves to absorb its wisdom long after they have left their training programs.This highly acclaimed, Doody’s Core title has been thoroughly updated and expanded for the second edition: The Medication Interest Model (MIM), its motivational theory (the Choice Triad), and its over 100 easily learned and practical interviewing techniques are described and demonstrated with clear examples and compelling illustrative interview dialogue.Interviewing principles and techniques are easily learned and used, providing an ideal introduction to medical, nursing, physician assistant, and clinical pharmacy students on how to effectively create the therapeutic alliance while enhancing medication adherence.Provides the most up to date information and nuances of the Medication Interest Model (MIM) from its creator and developer, a clinical model explicitly designed for effective use in the hectic clinical settings of primary care clinics, specialty clinics, and hospital units .Presents more than 100 specific interviewing techniques that are equally useful for medications for all disease states – from hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, and congestive heart failure to cancer, AIDS, and PTSD .Clearly shows how words powerfully impact whether or not patients are interested in taking medications and staying on them by providing the exact phrasings of over 100 interviewing techniques demonstrating, with clinical examples and clinical dialogue, all of their nuances for immediate, everyday practicality.Contains a wealth of relevant information for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, case managers, and clinical pharmacists across disciplines from primary care to specialists in endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology and psychiatry – and is equally valuable and relevant to both students and experienced clinicians.User-friendly Tip Archive, with the exact wording of all 100 of the tips shown in the easily accessed e-book for quick referral by medical and nursing students during clinical rotations.Enhance Your eBook Reading Experience:Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and the family.Some exciting features of the 5th edition include:The Nurse Speaks/The Nursing Student Speaks is a real-life, clinical, community-based nursing example opening each chapter.Healthy People 2020, the foundation for the nation's 10-year health objectives, is examined and applied wherever relevant, providing the most up-to-date information on community issues such as access to care, obesity, emerging infectious diseases, technological advances, and alternative complementary therapies.Client Situations in Practice boxes examine real life community-based nursing situations and solutions specific to each chapter's content.Assessment Tools boxes provide opportunities to apply learning and test knowledge gained.

Awarded Third Place in the 2020 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Adult Primary Care CategoryCanadian Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach , second edition, reflects a progressive and modern view of Canadian nursing practice, featuring innovative elements that facilitate comprehensive examinations, and unique features that assist with application and analysis, including new symptom analysis boxes. The text reflects Canadian best practices, standards of health promotion and screening guidelines as well as Canadian standards of communication and documentation. In addition to the Canadian nursing research provided for each chapter, there are focused health promotion topics and critical thinking questions that reflect the NCLEX. Each chapter also includes a threaded case study that requires critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning to analyze data, document, plan care, and communicate findings culminating with a “Putting it All Together” feature.  Additional features and online resources round out the book and build on the in-text threaded cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures.Outstanding Features Include:Current, comprehensive coverage familiarizes you with Canadian best practices, standards of health promotion and screening guidelines, as well as Canadian standards of communication and documentation.Threaded case studies in each chapter guide you through the assessment process for commonly encountered scenarios to hone your clinical decision-making capabilities. Putting it All Together features strengthen your data analysis, documentation, care planning, and communication skills. Critical Thinking Questions test your understanding and prepare you for success on the NCLEX®.Additional online resources reinforce essential concepts through review questions, animations, learning objectives, videos and more. 

Principios de farmacología. Bases fisiopatológicas del tratamiento farmacológico ofrece un enfoque integral, basado en sistemas y mecanismos, de la farmacología contemporánea y la investigación, así como del desarrollo de nuevos agentes farmacológicos.Para esta cuarta edición se han realizado cambios importantes en los capítulos de receptores, así como en los de farmacocinética y farmacodinamia. El contenido y las evaluaciones se han actualizado y revisado de forma integral y se ha incorporado nueva información entre la que destacan los avances más recientes en áreas de gran desarrollo terapéutico como la farmacogenética y la farmacogenómica.La obra se organiza en seis secciones que abordan los principios básicos de los diferentes agentes farmacológicos organizados por sistema o sitio de acción y tres secciones adicionales sobre el desarrollo de nuevos agentes, toxicología y el futuro de la disciplina. Cada uno de sus apartados se caracteriza por su formato de lectura sencilla y amigable, así como por su estructura que facilita la correlación entre los aspectos químico, bioquímico y fisiológico de la farmacología con su aplicación en la práctica clínica.

Conciso, portátil y fácil de usar, Manual Washington de especialidades clínicas. Neumología proporciona acceso rápido a la información esencial necesaria para evaluar a los pacientes con neumopatías. La 2.ª edición ofrece el contenido más actualizado sobre el diagnóstico, la investigación y el tratamiento de las neumopatías agudas y crónicas más comunes, incluyendo la cobertura de tecnologías avanzadas y fármacos más recientes. Ideal para estudiantes de medicina en rotaciones y residentes, el manual también es útil como recurso de primera línea para internistas y otros proveedores de atención primaria.Características principales: Desarrollo ampliado de pruebas diagnósticas y tratamientosReorganización del formato para una búsqueda rápida y sencilla de la informaciónInformación clínica práctica para diagnosticar y tratar a una amplia variedad de pacientesCobertura integral de asma, EPOC, enfermedad pulmonar intersticial, hipertensión pulmonar, fibrosis quística, infecciones pulmonares, trasplante de pulmón, trastornos respiratorios del sueño y otras afecciones pulmonares comunesSíntomas, signos y problemas encontrados en la práctica diaria en un formato de referencia rápida con viñetasReferencias actualizadas para información adicional sobre un tema en particular.Escrito por becarios y profesores junior de la Facultad de Medicina de la Washington University para abordar de manera efectiva las experiencias clínicas de la vida real