Applied Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource which serves as a bridge between clinical experience and the role of an APRN. A comprehensive and concise text, it helps students navigate the data and presentation of symptoms that must be considered when making a diagnosis and recommendation for treatment. The text takes an advanced-practiced focus and links changes to a patient's health to signs and symptoms to help the student identify a diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the text provides the 'why' behind the choices and decisions advanced practice nurses make on a day-to-day basis.
Key Features:
-Advanced practice nursing focus;
-Coverage of gerontology, pediatrics, maternal, and mental health content meet requisites for core advanced pathophysiology;
-Comparison and contrast data of similar disease states help facilitate symptom recognition and differential diagnosis;
-Features common diagnostic tests (i.e. labs, imaging studies);
-Discusses the influence of cultural and gender variations in the presentation of disease.