Advanced Practice Nurse
- 1st Edition - September 29, 2006
- Latest edition
- Editor: Tina Bishop
- Language: English
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Finding it hard to keep up to date with rapidly changing guidelines? Advanced… Read more
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Description
Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Finding it hard to keep up to date with rapidly changing guidelines? Advanced Practice Nursing provides experienced Practice Nurses with an easy solution to the problem of keeping up to date. This compilation from ‘Practice Nurse' magazine groups together the topics of most relevance to the busy Practice Nurse. It pulls together recent articles that not only promote best practice but also encourage questioning and the implementation of change.
Key features
Key features
- Learning objectives specify what readers can gain from each chapter
- Activities promote a critical approach to thinking and practice
- IIllustrations summarise key areas for diagnosis and referral
- Learning points summarise the key points covered in each chapter
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1 Management of long-term illness
Part 1 Asthma
1 Prevention and detection
2 Management of the new patient
3 Long-term management
4 Promoting patient involvement
Part 2 Diabetes
5 Prevention and detection
6 Management of the new patient
7 Long-term management
8 Promoting patient involvement
Part 3 Mental health
9 Recognising depression
10 Diagnosis of dementia
11 Assessment and management of dementia
12 Suicide and self harm
Part 4 Gastrointestinal disorders
13 Dyspepsia
14 Irritable bowel syndrome
Section 2 Sexual health
Part 1 Female sexual health
15 Sexually transmitted infections
16 Contraception and unwanted pregnancy I
17 Contraception and unwanted pregnancy II
18 Female sexual dysfunction
Part 2 Male sexual health
19 Male sexual dysfunction
20 Prostate cancer: risk, symptoms and investigation
21 Prostate cancer: grading and staging, screening and treatment
Section 3 Health promotion: cardiovascular disease
22 Coronary heart disease
23 Primary prevention of coronary heart disease
24 Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
25 Hypertension
Section 4 Finding useful information
26 Recognising the need for information
27 Addressing the information gap
28 Strategies for locating information
Index
Part 1 Asthma
1 Prevention and detection
2 Management of the new patient
3 Long-term management
4 Promoting patient involvement
Part 2 Diabetes
5 Prevention and detection
6 Management of the new patient
7 Long-term management
8 Promoting patient involvement
Part 3 Mental health
9 Recognising depression
10 Diagnosis of dementia
11 Assessment and management of dementia
12 Suicide and self harm
Part 4 Gastrointestinal disorders
13 Dyspepsia
14 Irritable bowel syndrome
Section 2 Sexual health
Part 1 Female sexual health
15 Sexually transmitted infections
16 Contraception and unwanted pregnancy I
17 Contraception and unwanted pregnancy II
18 Female sexual dysfunction
Part 2 Male sexual health
19 Male sexual dysfunction
20 Prostate cancer: risk, symptoms and investigation
21 Prostate cancer: grading and staging, screening and treatment
Section 3 Health promotion: cardiovascular disease
22 Coronary heart disease
23 Primary prevention of coronary heart disease
24 Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
25 Hypertension
Section 4 Finding useful information
26 Recognising the need for information
27 Addressing the information gap
28 Strategies for locating information
Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 6, 2006
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
TB
Tina Bishop
Affiliations and expertise
Practice Nurse and Senior Lecturer, Community Nursing, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK