Clinical Rotation Manual for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Student

by Nichole Miller AGACNP-BC, MSN

Overview

"Provide[s] the foundation needed for new graduates as well as seasoned acute care nurse practitioners to practice at the highest level. This author has taken great care to write this book in an easy-to-read-and-follow format to meet the needs of acutely ill patients while providing high-quality, cost-effective care."

-Mary Ellen Roberts, DNP, APN-c, NP-c, FNAP, FAANP

Director, DNP and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Programs

Seton Hall University, Nutley, NJ

From the Foreword

Written specifically for the AGNP-AC student or the incoming Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, this handy guide provides a quick but thorough reference on the basics of the many complex challenges encountered in the clinical rotation portion of the AGNP-AC curriculum. Conveniently spiral-bound, it covers key skills such as patient assessment, billing, labs, imaging, and major diagnoses, among many others in a bulleted format for on-the-go comprehension. Chapters are deliberately designed to aid in surmounting practice knowledge gaps by synthesizing resources often found in disparate references, making them easily accessible and pertinent to the AGNP student.

Organized by body system, this text covers a wide array acute care conditions. Each diagnosis is broken down into cause, assessment findings, diagnostics, and treatment and management. Every chapter provides a wealth of “clinical tips and tricks” boxes that summarize key information so the reader can avoid common mistakes in acute care. This resource concludes with a special “billing” section that received praise from reviewers for its usefulness. Content is presented in a straightforward, accessible style based on the author’s many years of clinical expertise in precepting to help make the challenging clinical rotation in this high-acuity specialty a great transition to practice experience.

Key Features:

• Written specifically for the AGNP-AC student in clinical rotations to provide appropriate, role-specific guidance
• Serves as a guide for instructors for effective precepting of AGNP-AC students
• Instructs on principles of accurate diagnosis and management of the major acute conditions by body system
• Cuts through the complexities of billing
• Provides abundant "clinical tips and tricks" boxes in each chapter

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826189233
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/22/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	992,235
File size:	914 KB

Table of Contents

SECTION I: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND DISORDERS

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 1: Acute Coronary Syndrome, Myocardial Infarction

Chapter 2: Hypertensive Crisis

Chapter 3: Management of Acute Heart Failure

SECTION II: PULMONARY DISORDERS AND MANAGEMENT

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 4: Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation

Chapter 5: Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

SECTION III: MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 6: Cerebral Vascular Accidents and Transient Ischemic Attacks

Chapter 7: Seizure Management

SECTION IV: MANAGEMENT OF RENAL AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 8: Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Failure

Chapter 9: Electrolyte Derangements

Chapter 10: Acid-Base Balance & Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases

SECTION V: MANAGEMENT GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 11: Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Chapter 12: Acute Liver Dysfunction

Chapter 13: Biliary and Pancreatic Disorders

Chapter 14: Inflammatory Gastrointestinal Disorders

SECTION VI: MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE DISORDERS

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 15: Acute Management of Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetic Emergencies

Chapter 16: Thyroid disorders in the critically Ill and Thyroid emergencies

SECTION VII: MANAGEMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Author: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Chapter 17: Sepsis and Septic Shock

Chapter 18: Fever of Unknown Origin and Nosocomial Infections

SECTION IX: BILLING, ASSESSMENTS, and DOCUMENTATION

Authors: Nichole Miller DNP, AGACNP-BC

Tish Meyers MSN, APRN

Chapter 19: Note Templates

Chapter 20: Billing

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN (University of Utah College of Nursing)
Description: This 187-page quick reference text opens with a helpful list of key abbreviations. Organized into eight sections with a total of 20 chapters, the first seven sections cover disorders of various body systems. Each body system section contains two to four chapters focusing on common acute disorders for that body system. The last section addresses clinical documentation and billing for services. The book concludes with a helpful index.
Purpose: The book's purpose is to offer a quick reference on the basics of the clinical challenges encountered in the clinical rotation portion of an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner curriculum. The text is designed to help bridge the practice knowledge gap by pulling together resources often found in multiple references. The aim is to make key information easily accessible. Quick reference guides are helpful for students and the author has met the goals for the book.
Audience: The book is written specifically for adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner students and for novice adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioners. The author is a board-certified adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience primarily in critical care nursing. She serves as a visiting faculty member for a nurse practitioner program.
Features: The chapters in the body system sections address complex acute care disorders using the most current evidence-based information. The discussion of the complex acute care disorders are organized using the headings by causes, assessment findings, diagnostic testing, and treatment and management. A theme of the book is clinical decision-making within a collaborative practice model. The last section provides templates for clinical notes and information about billing for clinical services. All content is presented in a bulleted format to promote readers' ability to quickly find key information. The book contains no tables or illustrations. Each chapter ends with a brief bibliography. A feature of the body system chapters is the "clinical tips and tricks" boxes that summarize key information. These boxes offer important facts and short bits of information for selected diseases that are encountered frequently in clinical practice. One shortcoming of the book is that the hematologic and immune body systems are not covered in the text despite disorders of these important body systems being encountered frequently in clinical practice.
Assessment: I am not aware of other books on the market targeted to the clinical component of the adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner curriculum. There are several quick reference guides aimed at staff nurses in critical care settings and these guides may also be of help to adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner students. This book can serve as a building block for students; however, students will need more comprehensive texts throughout their nurse practitioner program and clinical career.

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