Can Some one help me ?

hcmanp, NP · Feb 26, 2008

check out the national guideline clearinghouse. They have tons of guidelines from every possible source, including the VA, ICSI, and government agencies from all over the world. I am not 100 percent sure that's what you are looking for...we used a textbook Uphold and Graham, Clinical Guidelines in Adult Health or something like that. We never developed "standardized procedures" where I went. Keep talking if this does not help. Somebody on this forum wil have the answer!

core0 · Feb 26, 2008

I am a FNP student learning standardized procedures can anyone sent me a standardized procedure for abdominal pain or acute abdominal pain chronic abdominal pain?
I am trying to figure out what a finished one should look like or how to get started on doing procedures.
Thank you to anyone who can help me and thanks to any one who will take some time to assist me.

I too an having trouble figuring out what you are looking for. Standardized procedures for abdominal pain really doesn't make sense. Are you looking for a differential or algorithm for abdominal pain?

When I was in school I used the FP notebook a lot. Here is there section on acute abdominal pain:

http://www.fpnotebook.com/Surgery/GI/ActAbdmnlPn.htm

Here is the section on abdominal pain evaluation:

http://www.fpnotebook.com/Surgery/GI/AbdmnlPnEvltn.htm

There really isn't a section on chronic abdominal pain but here is the search page with the rest of the abdominal pain sections:

http://www.fpnotebook.com/asp3/search.aspx?QU=abdominal+pain

For the acute abdomen this has been the standard for more than 80 years:

http://www.amazon.com/Copes-Early-Diagnosis-Acute-Abdomen/dp/0195136799

Like I said, I'm really not sure what you are looking for. Hope this helps.

David Carpenter, PA-C