Best Nurse Practitioner Reference Books by Specialty

Whether you’re in school doing clinicals, in a residency program, or practicing full-time, it’s essential to have a bookshelf (and lab coat pocket) stocked with the best nurse practitioner reference books.

I dug through Amazon to find the best rated and most up-to-day reference books, and I organized them by nurse practitioner specialty. Check out the lists below, and please comment if you have any solid recommendations.

Of course, regardless of your specialty, you may enjoy NP Notes: Nurse Practitioner’s Clinical Pocket Guide (2019) and Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales (2019).

Family Nurse Practitioner Reference Books

• Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking (2016)
• CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care (2020)
• Tarascon Pain Pocketbook (2019)
• Habif’s Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy (2020)
• The 5-Minute Clinical Consult (2020)
• SOAP for Family Medicine (2018)
• Pfenninger and Fowler’s Procedures for Primary Care (2019)
• Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica (2018)

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Reference Books

• DSM-5® Made Easy: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis (2014)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (2013)
• Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (2017)
• Psych Notes Clinical Pocket Guide (2017)
• Psychosomatic Medicine (Pittsburgh Pocket Psychiatry Series) (2015)
• Pocket Guide to Addiction Assessment and Treatment (2016)
• The Clozapine Handbook: Stahl’s Handbooks (2019)

Emergency Nurse Practitioner Reference Books

• Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook (2019)
• Family Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care, Second Edition: The Pocket NP (2020)
• Geriatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: The Pocket NP (2017)
• Pediatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: The Pocket NP (2017)

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Guideline Books

• The APRN’s Complete Guide to Prescribing Pediatric Drug Therapy (2019)
• Pediatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: The Pocket NP (2017)
• Tarascon Primary Care Pocketbook (2014)

Women’s Health NP Guideline Books

• Pocket Obstetrics and Gynecology (2018)
• OB/GYN Peds Notes Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guide (2016)
• High-Risk Pregnancy with Online Resource: Management Options (2018)

Geriatric NP Guideline Books

• Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking (2016)
• Geriatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: The Pocket NP (2016)

Acute Care NP Guideline Books

• Pocket ICU (2017)
• Guide to the Most Common Internal Medicine Workups and Diseases (2017)
• Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (2019)
• Psychosomatic Medicine (Pittsburgh Pocket Psychiatry Series) (2015)

If you enjoy books as much as I do, check my other favorite books lists, including books on health innovation, psychiatric case studies, and those written by nurse practitioners themselves.

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