101 Primary Care Case Studies: A Workbook for Clinical and Bedside Skills

Real-life primary care case studies*  from  more than 50 primary care providers, including physician  assistants,  nurse practitioners, and physicians!

101  Primary Care Case Studies  offers real-life patient scenarios and  critical thinking exercises to  help you work through a patient’s chief  complaint. Through narrative  case studies, you will determine how best  to diagnose, treat, and manage  your patient based on the history of  present illness, review of  systems, relevant history, and physical  examination findings. This  workbook will ask probing questions to help  you determine differential  and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests  to order, and appropriate  patient management strategies using relevant  and timely references to  support your decisions. The organization of  each case study simulates  the patient care journey from chief complaint  to outcome.

Serving  as a virtual  clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used  independently or in a  classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust  online student  supplement that provides answers to all questions, real  outcomes of the  cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors  on how the  patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook  help you  work through patient cases clinically, it will also share  important,  but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to  successfully  communicate with and care for your patients.

Covering   conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this   workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic   perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even   includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT   (E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together   both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights  into  quality and compassionate care.

Key Features

• Provides   real-life patient cases from an interprofessional author team of   physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians
• Uses   a templated case study design and critical thinking exercises to help   you methodically work through various patient scenarios
• Teaches clinical and bedside manner skills imperative for delivering quality patient care
• Covers patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations
• Offers additional insight on patient education, medical and legal concerns, and interprofessional collaboration
• Includes a robust online student supplement with valuable insights from the authors on how they successfully managed the cases
• Provides   instructors with a table of contents that is filterable by chief   complaint, diagnosis, patient population, and organ system