ACUTE & CRITICAL CARE NURSE PRACTITIONER: CASES IN DIAGNOSTIC REASONING

Helpful to any nurse who works in critical care or progressive care and would like to know more about the treatment, diagnosis, diseases. Absolutely must to have for those who think about becoming a Nurse Practitioner. The book is very well written. It has a great index which helps to find the place of the interest easier. The approach of describing the case by giving the signs, symptoms first and then slowly introducing the process of making the decision is extremely valuable for the learner. It is like a game-- you get the scenario and you can guess what is going on, following the differential, the tests and labs results, watching the decision making process based on labs and test results. The use of X-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound pictures makes this book absolutely invaluable.

I’m in school for AGACNP and this book is very helpful & walks you through real life situations. The descriptions are very thorough and allow you to fully understand disease processes and the proper testing needed.

It is a well written book with good critical thinking exercises. It brings in all the concepts and ties it all together!

A timely and much overdue resource for APNs learning to care for acute and critically-ill patients, as well as those in current practice. As a former student of both of the authors of this text, reading through the case studies has sent me back to the UVa classroom where I can still envision them--along with all of my other professors at the time--in the front of the classroom drilling us on the concepts laid out within the text. This text is important as it will decrease a practitioner’s diagnostic bias, and permit a more sound and objective approach to patient diagnosis and care. My reasoning for 4-stars to rate this text, and not 5-stars, has fallen largely on the fact that a contributor, Janie Heath, has not cared for patients as an APN in likely 10 years. Additionally, she has been involved in a nurse-authored publication that labelled nurse practitioners as “mid-levels”. Recent, direct clinical practice is a core competency for any APN, and Ms. Heath does not satisfy this competency. Lastly, being representative of and for APNs fundamentally consists of identifying APNs by their professional titles, and not indolently using labels and terms that were created out of political and medical strongholds. Two very enthusiastic thumbs-up to Suzi and Sarah. And thank you, both, for your educational roles while at UVa!

Very excited to have this book. As a nurse of 23 years I am used to already having the diagnosis made for me. So I just started NP school and very lucky to have found Suzanne Burns book to help me learn to make the diagnosis my self. Very exciting putting the pieces together.

Well writtem case presentation format with in dept analysis that includes all the tools to effectively teach arriving at the diagnosis.

I bought this book for down time when Im precepting NP students. Its a win win! I get a refresher and they learn. It is very well written.

Extremely helpful! Whatever you do don't look at the table of contents first. Try to formulate your own diagnosis first.

brought it as a present but be aware it is American version