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Practice Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines available in our eBook collection

AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice

The 2019 edition includes the following extensively revised guidelines:

  • Design and Maintenance of the Surgical Suite
  • Safe Patient Handling and Movement
  • Sterile Technique
  • Sterilization

Family Practice Guidelines, Fourth Edition

Provides current national practice guidelines for professional standards of care across the life span.

Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice

Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice features 26 chapters examining multiple categories of cancer-care agents, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, molecularly targeted agents, and hormone therapy.

Guidelines for Perinatal Care

Jointly developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), this unique resource addresses the full spectrum of perinatal medicine from both the obstetric and pediatric standpoints.

Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies, 19th Edition

Keep current with the latest clinical practice guidelines and policies from the American Academy of Pediatrics covering more than 50 clinical practice guidelines, plus every AAP policy statement, clinical report, and technical report through December 2018.

NICE: Clinical Guidelines

Recommendations on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and Wales.

Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, Fifth Edition

Focuses on improving quality of care, cost-effectiveness, and outcome. Protocols, systematically tested by more than 300 participating NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders) hospitals' are organized in a consistent format and include an overview, assessment and intervention strategies, and an illustrative case study with discussion.

Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care

Tap into the expertise of nearly 200 critical-care experts who discuss the wide variety of clinical options in critical care, examine the relevant research, and provide recommendations based on a thorough analysis of available evidence. New sections covering persistent critical illness and the role of advanced practice nurses and physician assistants in the ICU.

CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2019

Designed to spare busy clinicians from having to wade through lengthy full-length practice guidelines, this unique resource presents concise take-home-point summaries of the guidelines most relative to inpatient care in a hospital setting.