Formulating a Differential Diagnosis for the Advanced Practice Provider
Jacqueline Rhoads, Julie C. Penick · first published 2022 · ISBN 9780826144669
This workbook presents 95 symptom-based patient cases with step-by-step diagnostic reasoning. Each case starts with a chief complaint, builds through history and findings, and shows how to systematically eliminate possibilities and arrive at a diagnosis. The reasoning is laid out explicitly so you can see the thinking process, not just the answer.
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Practice builds competence. These cases take the frameworks from other books and put them into realistic scenarios where you work through differential diagnoses the way you'll do it in practice. Many NP students use this book throughout their clinical rotations.