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| A Must Purchase Book for all PAs and NPs in Acute Care Setting: A Christmas and Hanukkah Special |
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by Bob Blumm, MA, PA-C, DFAAPA - December 21, 2011
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Recently, I was a speaker at the NPA of NYS and spent a couple of hours in their exhibit hall. I have written on this subject a couple of weeks ago but today I will focus on a treasure that I unexpectedly came upon. There was a lone bookseller and his brother, an emergency room director, who were standing behind a table with about fifty books, all of which shared the same title. I picked it up and started through the first ten pages to be properly introduced and the salesman brother asked what I thought of the book. I made a suggestive comment that I was an expert on some of these subjects and wished to look at the chapter related to one of my areas of expertise. To my amazement (I have no idea why I was amazed) this chapter shared all of my personal expertise and then added a few points that I had failed to include in my own study. I was permitted to take the book to my room and give it a real test run, and it delivered on every subject that I studied. This book was based upon the physician’s protocols and agreements with his NPs and PAs and his book was called aptly, Nurse Practitioner Acute Care Protocols and Physician Assistant Acute Care Protocols. I believe that this should be in the personal library and lab coat pocket of every clinician who practices Urgent Care, emergency Medicine, Family Practice and beyond. It’s not a cookbook but a systematic manner in which to correctly diagnose and treat patients who present with certain complaints. Many of us have treated common problems in a common manner and have almost forgotten that with EBM there came new approaches and a widened differential diagnosis. This book is meant to focus on the varied differentials and to assist us in our approach to either rule in or rule out potential life threatening problems.
We are now entering the season of Hanukkah and Christmas and during these holidays we share gifts. There is no better protocol book to purchase for a colleague of friend or family member who is a PA/NP than Acute Care Protocols. You can begin with Cardiovascular and observe patient care scenarios for chest pain protocol, cardiac dysrhythmia protocol and Hypertension protocol. It moves steadily to CHF and Syncope/Presyncope protocols. You will discover Adult/Acute Bronchitis Protocols. Want to know the stepwise approach to /CVA/TIA, there is a protocol that can be observed. The GI system is handled from the mouth to the anus and the endocrine protocols make this educating, fun and correct. Ophthalmology, Fractures and Nasal protocols, Motor Vehicle Accidents, strains , sprains, fractures, general and vascular problems Pediatric, Geriatrics and social and Psychiatric. They are all included and are easily followed with time for real time responses from your labs.
In this age of malpractice concerns and a legal department that has discovered NPs and PAs, why be short. These lawyers read the same books and sometimes are more prepared that the experts. I don’t want to defend my actions but would rather render the proper care flopping good protocols and guidelines and then mixing and matching. This book has the power to protect you and your patients as well as the supervising or collaborating physicician which make us all winners. Dr. Correll has done a great job and has 28 years of working with NPs and PAs. Think of this book during this holiday season. While you are thinking, it’s a perfect time to consider that Personal liability Insurance Policy. It is no longer a case of who should purchase this insurance but rather of who can afford not to purchase. Next moth I’ll alert you to a strange phenomena that is occurring across this land concerning these policies. Don’t fail to look before you leap as this will be the most important decision of your medical careers.
To purchase the Acute Care Protocols books by Donald Correll, MD, FACEP,
Robert M. Blumm has received national recognition as a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA). He is the past president of the Association of Plastic Surgery Physician Assistants, and was past-president of the American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants, past president of the American College of Clinicians and NYSSPA, as well as Chairman of the Surgical Congress of the AAPA. In addition, Bob received the John Kirklin MD Award for Professional Excellence from the American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants. Along with his associate, Dr. Acker, Bob was the first recipient of the AAPA PAragon Physician-PA Partnership Award. He has been a contributing author of three textbooks, written 150 plus articles and is a sought out conference speaker throughout the United States.
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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