For nurses, this guide explains assessing a patient for conditions in all body systems, including nutritional and mental health assessment. Cultural variables, age-related variations, and interpreting findings are incorporated into chapters that cover anatomy and physiology, taking a health history, and abnormal findings, with many illustrations and photos included. This edition has a full-color design, new organization, more on the assessment of obese patients, and web resources for students and instructors. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master assessment techniques and remember key information.
This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website offers ancillary materials, such as an image bank and printable study cards.
Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master assessment techniques and remember key information.
This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers.
A companion Website will offer ancillary materials such as an image bank and printable study cards.
