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Health assessment for nursing practice / Susan Fickerett Wilson, Jean Foret Giddens.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Mosby, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 606 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0323091512
  • 9780323091510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.075 23
LOC classification:
  • RT48 .W55 2013
Contents:
Foundations for Health Assessment -- Importance of health assessment -- Interviewing patients to obtain a health history -- Techniques and equipment for physical assessment -- General inspection and measurement of vital signs -- Ethic, cultural, and spiritual considerations -- Pain assessment -- Mental health and abusive behavior assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Health assessment of the adult -- Skin, hair and nails-- Head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat -- Lungs and respiratory system -- Heart and peripheral vascular system -- Abdomen and gastrointestinal system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Neurologic system -- Breasts and axillae -- Reproductive system and the perineum -- Health assessment across the life span -- Developmental assessment throughout the life span -- Assessment of the infant, child, and adolescent -- Assessment of the pregnant patient -- Assessment of the older adult -- Synthesis and application of health assessment -- Conducting a head-to-toe examination -- Documenting the comprehensive health assessment -- Adapting health assessment to the hospitalized patient.
Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.
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Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 616.075 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued 07/10/2024 A518509B

Previous ed.: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foundations for Health Assessment -- Importance of health assessment -- Interviewing patients to obtain a health history -- Techniques and equipment for physical assessment -- General inspection and measurement of vital signs -- Ethic, cultural, and spiritual considerations -- Pain assessment -- Mental health and abusive behavior assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Health assessment of the adult -- Skin, hair and nails-- Head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat -- Lungs and respiratory system -- Heart and peripheral vascular system -- Abdomen and gastrointestinal system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Neurologic system -- Breasts and axillae -- Reproductive system and the perineum -- Health assessment across the life span -- Developmental assessment throughout the life span -- Assessment of the infant, child, and adolescent -- Assessment of the pregnant patient -- Assessment of the older adult -- Synthesis and application of health assessment -- Conducting a head-to-toe examination -- Documenting the comprehensive health assessment -- Adapting health assessment to the hospitalized patient.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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