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Collins-Bride and Saxe's Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practice Nursing, Fourth Edition is an accessible and practical reference designed to help nurses and students with daily clinical decision making. Written in collaboration with certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, pharmacists, and physicians, it fosters a team approach to health care. Divided into four areas-Pediatrics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and, Adult General Medicine-and following a lifespan approach, it utilizes the S-O-A-P (Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan) format. Additionally, the authors explore complex chronic disease management, health promotion across the lifespan, and professional and legal issues such as reimbursement, billing, and the legal scope of practice. The Fourth Edition has a keen focus on gerontology to accommodate the AGNP specialty and to better assist the student or clinician in caring for the aging population. The authors follow the across the life span approach and focus on common complete disorders. Certain chapters have been revised and new chapters have been added which include:Health Maintenance for Older Adults; Frailty; Common Gerontology Syndromes; Cancer Survivorship; Lipid Disorders; Acne (pediatrics section). ""

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Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Clinical Professor, Interprofessional Primary Care Outreach for Persons with Mental Illness (IPCOM); Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California Assistant Adjunct Professor, Specialty Coordinator, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California Midwife and Lactation Consultant, Hatch Midwifery, San Francisco, California

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