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