Includes index.

Legal scope of advanced nursing practice --
Pediatric health maintenance and promotion --
First well baby visit --
Care of the postneonatal intensive care graduate --
0 to 3 years of age interval visit --
3 to 6 years of age interval visit --
6 to 11 years of age interval visit --
The adolescent and young adult (12 to 21 years of age) interval visit --
Developmental assessment: screening for developmental delay and autism --
Common pediatric presentations --
Atopic dermatitis in children --
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents --
Childhood asthma --
Childhood depression --
Child maltreatment --
Failure to thrive during infancy --
Urinary incontinence in children --
Gynecology --
Abnormal uterine bleeding --
Amenorrhea and polycysticovary syndrome --
Cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancer screening --
Female and male sterilization --
Hormonal contraception --
Menopause transition --
Nonhormonal contraception --
Urinary incontinence in women --
Obstetric health maintenance and promotion --
The initial prenatal visit --
Prenatal genetic screening --
The return prenatal visit --
The postpartum visit --
Guidelines for medical consultation and referral during pregnancy --
Common obstetric presentations --
Anemia in pregnancy --
Birth choices for women with a previous Cesarean delivery --
Common discomforts of pregnancy --
Gestational diabetes mellitus: early detection and management in pregnancy --
Preeclampsia --
Prenatal genetic diagnosis --
Preterm labor management --
Urinary tract infection: prevention and management in pregnancy --
Adult health maintenance and promotion --
Health care maintenance of the adult --
Health care maintenance for adults with developmental disabilities --
Health care maintenance for transgendered individuals --
Postexposure prophylaxis for HIV infection --
Common adult presentations --
Abscess assessment & management --
Anemia --
Anticoagulation therapy (oral) --
Anxiety --
Asthma in adolescents and adults --
Benign prostatic hyperplasia --
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --
Chronic nonmalignant pain management --
Chronic viral hepatitis --
Congestive heart failure --
Dementia --
Depression --
Diabetes mellitus --
Epilepsy --
Low back pain --
Gastroesophageal reflux disease --
Herpes simplex infections --
Hypertension --
Intimate partner violence (domestic violence) --
Irritable bowel syndrome --
Neck pain --
Obesity --
Osteoarthritis --
Primary care of HIV-infected adults --
Smoking cessation --
Thyroid disorders --
Upper extremity tendinopathy: bicipital tendinopathy, lateral epiconylitis, and DeQuervain's tenosynovitis --
Wound care.

This newly revised second edition of Clinical Guidelines for Advanced Practiced Nursing: An Interdisciplinary Approach is a process-oriented resource that contains disease- and procedure-specific guidelines to help readers make clinical decisions int he most proficient manner. This up-to-date text addresses common healthcare conditions and procedures done in ambulatory care settings. Divided into four sections--General Medicine, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics--for ease of use; Follows the S-O-A-P (Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan) format to underscore the process of clinical decision making; Provides readers with the single, most up-to-date resource of clinical guidelines; Offers readers a set of guidelines that describe prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives; Proposes recommendations concerning physician consultation and referral; and includes up-to-date patient education supplements to enhance patients' self-care efforts.