Health Assessment for Nursing Practice

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.<ul><li>UNIQUE! Routine exams and exams for advanced practice are identified with a special icon to help you quickly and easily determine essential assessment content. </li><li>Body system chapters are subdivided into clearly delineated sections to allow easy navigation among these consistent sections within the chapters. </li><li>UNIQUE! End-of-chapter Documentation Samples demonstrate how to document client data and provide a practice context for client charting. </li><li>UNIQUE! Special feature boxes outline common, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about health assessment and provide corresponding answers. </li><li>Ethnic and Cultural Variations boxes present differences to anticipate among today’s multicultural client population and show how to vary the exam for varied populations. </li><li>Separate sections for special circumstances or special needs show how to vary the exam for clients with special needs. </li><li>Feature boxes outline Healthy People 2010 objectives to provide you thorough discussions of recommendations for health promotion and reducing risk. </li><li>Interactive Activity Lists at the end of each chapter outline corresponding exercises, checklists, and lab forms that can be found on the companion CD-ROM. </li><li>Case Studies with Clinical Reasoning Questions are provided at the end of each chapter to test your application of textbook material. </li><li>NCLEX® exam-style review questions are included at the end of each chapter. </li><li>PDA-Downloadable Exam Techniques are included on the Evolve companion website to allow you to easily access important summary exam information. </li></ul><ul><li>UNIQUE! The 30 Core Assessment Skills identified by research as most commonly performed by nurses are now highlighted with a unique icon.</li><li>UNIQUE! The companion CD-ROM now provides the Core Assessment Skills Checklists as quick step-by-step summaries for each of the 30 Core Assessment Skills. </li><li>Two new chapters pull all of the essential exam and assessment content together into cohesive chapters for the infant and child and the older adult. </li><li>UNIQUE! Clinical Reasoning Exemplars walk you through the thinking process of how an experienced nurse makes decisions. </li><li>UNIQUE! Concept boxes feature eight concepts in the context of health assessment including pain, sleep, oxygenation, perfusion, tissue integrity, motion, sensory, and intracranial regulation. </li></ul>