Nurse Practitioner's Clinical Companion

This groundbreaking resource covers all specialties, including family and adult, women's health, pediatric, geriatric, and acute care as well as emerging practice areas. NPs benefit from a quick reference two-column format; procedure steps and clinical facts enhanced with more than 100 illustrations and charts; patient-teaching, emergency, critical care, and referral guidelines. Contents include assessment findings, ECGs, laboratory tests, common X-rays, dermatologic disorders, disease management, emergency care, primary care procedures, infection control, drug hazards, financial and legal issues, health promotion, normal and crisis laboratory test values, simplified charting, selected references, and an index.