Description:
Complete evidence-based guidance on the assessment of patients across the life span and development of sound clinical reasoning in one convenient and affordable set!
The Evidence-Based Physical Examination Textbook and Handbook Set, Second Edition delivers an empirical approach to history-taking and physical assessment techniques while focusing on patient well-being and health promotion. The textbook utilizes the best evidence and clinical relevance underpinning advanced history-taking and assessment techniques incorporating the most current guidelines from reliable sources. The updated second edition offers more in-depth recognition of population health concepts, and as a result includes greater use of inclusive language, social determinants of health assessments, identification of health inequities, and racial, ethnic, gender, and age considerations within advanced assessment. Case studies, clinical pearls, and key takeaways aid retention, while abundant illustrations, photographic images, and videos demonstrate history-taking and assessment techniques.
The accompanying handbook combines scientific and holistic approaches to assessment and integrates best practices to guide history-taking and physical examination. Utilizing the evidence and summarizing clinical relevance, this handbook guides the incorporation of the most current evidence-based assessment guidelines from such sources as the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force. Instructor resources include PowerPoint slides, a test bank, additional case studies, and an image bank. Purchase includes access to CourseConnect, an enhanced learning platform for students that features interactive chapter lessons, case studies, quizzes, and more.
New to the Second Edition
- Prioritization of the importance of clinician well-being as a prerequisite for implementing evidence-based assessment
- Completely new chapters reflecting specific lifespan considerations including the child, adolescent, and older adult
- Expanded coverage in every chapter regarding changing practice environments
- Focus on inclusive history taking and assessment techniques including considerations for diverse populations and social determinants of health
- Inclusion of a checklist denoting best practice guidelines for telehealth visits
Key Features
- Focused on evidence and practical application of assessment skills to ensure the highest quality of care
- Emphasizes health and well-being for both the clinician and patient
- Delivers the evidence, acceptability, and clinical relevance behind history-taking and assessment techniques
- Focuses on the most current clinical guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Choosing Wisely(R) initiative, and highly recognized clinical practice organizations
- Includes abundant instructor resources
Brief description:
Kate Sustersic Gawlik, DNP, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP is an associate professor of clinical nursing at The Ohio State University. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an adult and family nurse practitioner. She has extensive background in primary care, with experience in family practice, college health, urgent care, and reproductive care. Her clinical interests are evidence-based practice, population health, preventive medicine, clinician well-being, parental burnout, health professionals' education, wellness, and cardiovascular disease prevention. She has served as the project manager for the Million Hearts(R) initiatives at Ohio State's College of Nursing since 2013. She leads and serves on multiple state and national workgroups targeted at improving cardiovascular population health and improving student health and wellness.
Dr. Gawlik started her nursing career in 2006 and completed her MSc in nursing with a specialization as an adult/geriatric nurse practitioner in 2009 from The Ohio State University. In 2015, she graduated with her DNP and a post-master's certificate as a family nurse practitioner from The Ohio State University. Dr. Gawlik was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and the Outstanding Leadership Award in 2017 at The Ohio State University. She received an Abstract of Distinction at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Conference in 2016 and the Editor's Pick for 2017 Paper of the Year by the American Journal of Health Promotion for "An Epidemiological Study of Population Health Reveals Social Smoking as a Major Cardiovascular Risk Factor." She was awarded the 2018 American Association of Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence for Ohio. She was inducted as a fellow into the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June 2018 and into the National Academies of Practice in March 2021. She received the 2022 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations Award.
Dr. Gawlik has been teaching nursing students since 2007. She has taught a variety of undergraduate, RN--BSN, and graduate nursing courses and serves as a clinical preceptor for advanced practice nursing students. Her passion lies in teaching in the online platform, both in synchronous and asynchronous classrooms. She has been teaching solely online since 2012. Dr. Gawlik developed an online educational module on cardiovascular population health that is used nationally and internationally. The educational module has led to the cardiovascular screening of over 100,000 people. Her educational interests include the development of new and innovative teaching modalities and pedagogies for online teaching with a focus on advanced assessment, evidence-based practice, and health promotion courses.