F.A. Davis Company

Helps nurse practitioner students bridge the clinical judgment gap between acute and community care to care in a primary care setting. With this text, they will master the change in judgment processes required in their new role as primary care providers. It will also help them to use their developed communication skills to establish a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship enable the patient to share pertinent, personal information.
"This unique text helps nurse practitioner students bridge the clinical judgment gap between acute and community care to care in a primary care setting. Nurse practitioner students will master the change in judgment processes required in their new role as primary care providers." -- Doody.com, 4/26/04
"It fills the gaps between the traditional advanced practice tests to present how the student builds a relationship with patients and families and evolves into competent practitioners." -- Doody Enterprises, 5/04

• Teaches the nurse practitioner student how to develop good clinical judgment skills
• Highlights the techniques used to gain patient confidence and obtain a complete patient history
• Provides links that allow the student nurse to use medical facts from disease and to make accurate clinical judgments
• Includes numerous case examples of interviewing techniques, sample communications, diagrams of processes, algorithms to guide decision making, sample documentation excerpts, and chapter summaries
• "Words of Wisdom" from experienced practitioners help the reader focus the interview encounter quickly and effectively
• Offers "rule-of-thumb" guides to common clinical practice decisions
• Emphasizes a holistic view of the patient

1: The Primary Care Process
1. Nurse Practitioners and Relationship-Centered Care
2. The Process of Clinical Judgment
3. Assessment and Diagnosis
4. Planning and Interventions
5. Documentation
2: Factors That Influence Clinical Judgment
6. Clinical Judgment for Special Populations
7. Special Settings
8. Clinical Judgment and Acute Care Nurse Practitioners
9. Issues in Primary Care
10. Philosophical Considerations in Nurse Practitioner Practice
11. Ethics in the Clinical Encounter