For students and nurses, this pocket-sized guide explains how to assess children, adults, childbearing women, and infants. Information is presented in three columns, with assessment techniques, normal and abnormal findings, and illustrations. The guide is organized by body part and includes a student resource CD. In this edition, Weber (nursing, Southeast Missouri State U.) includes new chapters on pain assessment and the assessment of families using violence, a new Spanish translation guide for health history and physical examination, and more focus on deviations from normal findings. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Renowned for its holistic perspective and "see and do" approach, this full-color, pocket-sized handbook offers step-by-step guidance on every phase of the nursing assessmentfor adults, children, and special populations. The focus is on what nurses need to know to assess clients: the health history, physical examination, normal and abnormal findings, nursing interventions, and nursing diagnoses. This edition features new chapters on pain assessment and domestic violence assessment, a new Spanish-to-English terminology appendix, more illustrations of examination techniques, and greater emphasis on deviations from normal findings.
Renowned for its holistic perspective and "see and do" approach, this full-color, pocket-sized handbook offers step-by-step guidance on every phase of the nursing assessmentfor adults, children, and special populations. The focus is on what nurses need to know to assess clients: the health history, physical examination, normal and abnormal findings, nursing interventions, and nursing diagnoses. This edition features new chapters on pain assessment and domestic violence assessment, a new Spanish-to-English terminology appendix, more illustrations of examination techniques, and greater emphasis on deviations from normal findings.
A bound-in CD-ROM includes a free PDA download of assessment tools for special populations.
