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there are a couple of books on the market that i know of. i have:
you might want to go to lippincott, williams and wilkins website and look at what they have. they publish a number of books of pathophysiology. i bought one a year ago which i didn't like. it only contains the most common medical diseases, it has beautiful pictures, it's big and bulky and it's already coming apart (poor binding). it does, however, give nice lists of the signs and symptoms.
a website where you can get lists of signs and symptoms of various diseases is on family practice notebook (http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm) if you have access to the internet while you are in clinicals. put the name of the disease you are looking for in the search box which appears on each page of the program. if that doesn't find it for you, try searching by a common symptom that you know the patient has, or from the home page you can link into the medical specialties and see what comes up. this site is thumbnail lists of signs & symptoms, diagnostic tests and treatment for diseases. there are lots of blue highlighted links to other pages within the site. it is mainly designed for doctors, but as a nursing student you need to know this same information.
sports2245
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Our clinical instructor wants us to get a book that gives signs/symptoms for diagnoses. She didn't give us any titles or authors. Does anyone have any suggestions for any good books? Thanks in advance.