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Renowned for its holistic perspective and "see and do" approach, Nurses' Handbook of Health Assessment, 10th Edition delivers streamlined, step-by-step guidance at every phase of nursing assessment to help students ensure accurate and effective assessments across all patient populations. This full-color handbook — updated to reflect the latest clinical insights in Health Assessment for Nursing, 7th Edition — details everything students need to interview clients and conduct thorough physical assessments with ease, including up-to-date assessment guidelines, full-color anatomy and physiology illustrations, images of normal and abnormal findings, and more — all in a convenient format ideal for today's on-the-go learning.
Contents
Unit 1 Nursing Data Collection, Documentation, and Analysis
Chapter 1 Obtaining a Nursing Health History: Guidelines and Frameworks
Chapter 2 Performing the Physical Assessment: Skills and Techniques
Chapter 3 Validating, Analyzing, Documenting, and Communicating Data
Unit 2 Integrative Holistic Nursing Assessment
Chapter 4 Assessing Psychosocial, Cognitive, and Moral Development
Chapter 5 Assessing Mental Status and Substance Abuse
Chapter 6 Assessing General Health Status and Vital Signs
Chapter 7 Assessing Pain
Chapter 8 Assessing for Violence
Chapter 9 Assessing Nutritional Status
UNIT 3 Nursing Assessment of Physical Systems
Chapter 10 Assessing Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 11 Assessing Head and Neck
Chapter 12 Assessing Eyes
Chapter 13 Assessing Ears
Chapter 14 Assessing Mouth, Throat, Nose, and Sinuses
Chapter 15 Assessing Thorax and Lungs
Chapter 16 Assessing Breasts and Lymphatic System
Chapter 17 Assessing Heart and Neck Vessels
Chapter 18 Assessing Peripheral Vascular System
Chapter 19 Assessing Abdomen
Chapter 20 Assessing Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 21 Assessing Neurologic System
Chapter 22 Assessing Male Genitalia and Rectum
Chapter 23 Assessing Female Genitalia and Rectum
UNIT 4 Nursing Assessment of Special Groups
Chapter 24 Assessing Childbearing Women
Chapter 25 Assessing Newborns and Infants
Chapter 26 Assessing Older Adults
Appendices
1 Nursing Assessment Form Based on Functional Health Patterns
2 Physical Assessment Guide: Pulling It All Together
3 Sample Adult Nursing Health History and Physical Assessment
4 Assessment of Family Functional Health Patterns
5 Child Cognitive (Piaget) And Psychosocial (Erickson) Development (Birth To 18 Years)
6 Collaborative Problems
7 Spanish Translation for Nursing Health History and Physical Examination
Index
