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The Third Edition of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice reflects a clinically-focused, team-based approach to health promotion conversations. This practical reference incorporates the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and offers a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Packed with realistic strategies throughout, it offers expert guidance on counseling patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, depression, and more. Provides sample conversations and practical strategies for preventive counseling during each stage of the patient encounter: gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screenings and lab tests, designing personalized health maintenance plans, facilitating behavior change, and more. Incorporates real-world guidance from experts in behavioral change in the context of limited resources, tailoring advice to different ethnic, financial, and social viewpoints. Helps you identify possible environmental or lifestyle risks and help patients develop strategies for mitigating those risks. Addresses the importance of providing care through a population health lens. Contains updated patient resource materials and instructions. Enrich 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.

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Practitioners and students: see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique.Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition, pinpoints exactly how, where, and why breath and heart sounds occur and helps you to differentiate normal from abnormal sounds quickly and accurately. Loaded with clear explanations, colorful illustrations, and linked to online audio cues, this sensational reference spans the simple to the complex and serves as an excellent tool for beginning practitioners and seasoned clinicians who are looking to hone their diagnostic skills and improve their auscultation technique. This compact, practical book will improve your ability to auscultate for heart and breath sounds, and enhance your understanding of their physiology. Throughout, the book references corresponding tracks on the accompanying website, enabling users to listen to the sounds immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic changes associated with the sounds. With full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex this comprehensive text explains heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document during a physical examination.Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Editionoffers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen.

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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! Drop the ECG anxiety and learn to interpret rhythm strips in simple, stress-free ways, with the popular ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy!®, 7th Edition. Offering expert direction, this freshly updated, fully illustrated guide is packed with images and learning aids that support your understanding and retention in obtaining and interpreting rhythm strips. Recognize and treat a wide variety of arrhythmias with this vital text — an ideal study aid and friendly on-the-unit support for both students and practicing nurses. Get skilled and confident in rhythm strip interpretation and treating arrythmias: NEW and updated content in a quick-read, bulleted format that makes it easy to spot important points at a glance Dozens of colorful diagrams and illustrations that outline core terms and concepts, with easy-to-retain definitions of key terms Colorful illustrations that demonstrate key concepts Sidebars that highlight key facts about ECG interpretation Expert guidance on obtaining and interpreting 12-lead ECGs and ACLS algorithms ECG basics – the fundamentals of cardiac anatomy and physiology, and of obtaining and interpreting a rhythm strip Expert direction on how to recognize arrhythmias – sinus node, atrial, junctional arrhythmias, ventricular arrhythmias, and atrioventricular blocks Seasoned nursing insight on treating arrhythmias – pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments Chapter features include: Just the facts – a quick summary of content at the start of each chapter “Nurse Joy and Jake” – offer expert insights, important care reminders and reassurance throughout Now I get it! – illustrations and flowcharts that explain difficult concepts Don’t skip this strip – identifies the arrhythmias that have the most serious consequences Ages and stages – age-related changes and how they affect a patient’s health Mixed signals – insights on solving common problems in ECG monitoring and interpretation Memory joggers – memory aids to help you grasp and remember difficult concepts I can’t waste time – key points you need to know for conditions that require quick identification and treatment That’s a wrap – quick end-of-chapter review of chapter content Quick quiz – end-of-chapter, multiple-choice questions that help you retain knowledge About the Clinical Editor Jessica Coviello, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Yale University School of Nursing in West Haven, Connecticut.

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