Family Practice Guidelines, 6th Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780826173546 ISBN-10: 0826173543 Copyright: 2024 Edition: 6th Editor: Cash, Jill Doody's Expert Review    Score: 89 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Sylvie Rosenbloom,  DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES  (Mercy College) Description This book highlights guidelines for various conditions encountered in the primary care setting. It includes tables, pictures, and graphics throughout the chapters. Additionally, the authors provide patient teaching pearls. The website allows readers to easily access the ebook. Purpose The purpose of the book is to provide management guidelines for conditions encountered in primary care. The ebook serves to improve access to the material and reduce the need to carry the paper copy. Additionally, users can easily navigate the hyperlinks which provide additional information and resources. Audience The book is a great resource for nursing or medical students and novice primary care providers. According to the authors, it is written for nurse practitioners, but is useful for all students in medical fields, including residents and physician assistants. The author is a family nurse practitioner with over 27 years of experience, currently practicing in primary care and teaching nurse practitioner students. Features Each chapter represents a body system and outlines various medical conditions encountered in primary care. The book reviews important facts about each condition, common complaints, subjective and objective data, diagnostic testing, differential diagnoses, treatment, and follow-up. The information is well organized with tables, graphs, and pictures when appropriate. Resources and references are included at the end of each chapter. Assessment This book is a great resource for nurse practitioner students or novice primary care providers. It contains clinical practice guidelines that readers can easily retrieve or reference. The book can also be used as a study guide for students preparing for certification. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the product's objectives met? 8 1-5 Does the website help achieve the purpose? 4 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 8 1-5 Is this directed to an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 Rate the added value from the online version. 4 1-5 Is the online version easy to access? 4 1-5 Rate the ease of navigation/search. 4 1-5 Rate the pedagogic quality of images on the online version. 4 1-5 Rate the value of added audiovisual features online. 4 1-5 Is there sufficient use of hypertext links? 5 1-5 Are there hyperlinks from references to journal articles? 5 1-5 Is there appropriate use of features like bookmarking, printing/exporting? 4 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.