Health assessment for nursing practice / Susan Fickerett Wilson, Jean Foret Giddens.
Material type: TextPublisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Mosby, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 606 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0323091512
- 9780323091510
- 616.075 23
- RT48 .W55 2013
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Book | South Campus South Campus Main Collection | 616.075 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 07/10/2024 | A518509B |
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616.075 CLI Clinical examination skills for healthcare professionals / | 616.075 DAI Advanced health assessment and clinical diagnosis in primary care / | 616.075 RHO Advanced health assessment and diagnostic reasoning / | 616.075 WIL Health assessment for nursing practice / | 616.0751 SMI Smith's patient-centered interviewing : an evidence-based method / | 616.0754 ASS Assessment made incredibly easy!. | 616.0754 BAL Seidel's guide to physical examination / |
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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