Health Assessment for Nursing Practice

Name: Health Assessment for Nursing Practice
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ISBN: 9780323053228

ISBN-10: 032305322X

ISBN-13: 9780323053228

Edition: 4th 2009

Authors: Susan F. Wilson, Jean Foret Giddens, Susan Fickertt Wilson, Jean Giddens

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Using a nursing-oriented, holistic approach, this straightforward text provides you with a visual presentation to conducting physical examinations. This textbook clearly delineates the routine exam techniques from those exams for special circumstances or advanced practice. UNIQUE! Routine exams and exams for advanced practice are identified with a special icon to help you quickly and easily determine essential assessment content. Body system chapters are subdivided into clearly delineated sections to allow easy navigation among these consistent sections within the chapters. UNIQUE! End-of-chapter Documentation Samples demonstrate how to document client data and provide a practice context…

Book details

List price: $93.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 9/19/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.87" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English




Foundations for Health Assessment



Why Learn Health Assessment?



Ethnic Cultural Considerations



Interviewing to Obtain a Health History



Techniques and Equipment for Physical Assessment



General Inspection and Measurement of Vital Signs



Pain Assessment



Mental Health Assessment



Sleep Assessment



Nutritional Assessment



Health Assessment of the Adult



Skin Hair, Nails



Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat



Lung and Respiratory System



Heart and Peripheral Vascular System



Abdomen and Gastrointestinal System



Musculoskeletal System



Neurologic System



Breasts and Axillae



Reproductive System and the Perineum



New! Health Assessment Across the Lifespan



Developmental Assessment Throughout the Lifespan



New! Assessment of the Infant and Child



Assessment of the Pregnant Client



New! Assessment of the Older Adult



Putting It All Together



Conducting a Head-to-Toe Assessment



Documenting the Health Assessment