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cover image - Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323083720
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-16-2012
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $79.95

Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Susan Fickertt Wilson, PhD, RN and Jean Foret Giddens, PhD, RN, FAAN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323083720
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-16-2012
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $79.95
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In today’s nursing programs, both instructors and students are busier and more pressed for time than ever. The 5th edition of Health Assessment for Nursing Practice by Susan Wilson and Jean Giddens is designed to help you make the most of your time with a user-friendly approach and a complete collection of flexible, efficient tools for teaching and learning. It's everything you need to help your students master the core assessment skills essential for clinical practice!

    • Straightforward, easy-to-understand coverage gives you the knowledge and confidence you need to perform a complete physical examination.
    • Clear differentiation between basic skills and advanced procedures or special circumstances helps you pinpoint essential content.
    • Unique, two-column format provides you with a visual distinction between normal and abnormal findings and techniques.
    • Vivid color photos walk you step by step through key skills and procedures.
    • UNIQUE! Concept Overview sections present core concepts in the context of health assessment with discussions on pain, oxygenation, perfusion, tissue integrity, motion, sensory perception, metabolism, and intracranial regulation.
    • UNIQUE! Clinical Reasoning: Thinking Like a Nurse boxes explain the thought process of an experienced nurse making a clinical decision to help you gain perspective on clinical judgment and the decision-making process.
    • UNIQUE! Patients with Situational Variations sections address special circumstances or needs for patients in wheelchairs or other limitations and exam variations.
    • NCLEX examination-style review questions at the end of each chapter help you assess your understanding of the content you need to know to pass the exam.
    • NEW! Adapting Health Assessment to an Ill Patient chapter explains special techniques for performing a head-to-toe assessment of a patient in a hospital setting, illustrated with a series of new examination photos.
    • UNIQUE! Case Studies with Clinical Reasoning Questions strengthen your critical thinking skills with algorithms focusing on noticing, interpreting, and responding.
    • NEW and UNIQUE! Quality and Safety Competencies for Nurses (QSEN) tables address assessment competencies related to patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
    • Health Promotion for Evidence-Based Practice boxes outline new Healthy People 2020 objectives and include thorough discussions of recommendations for health promotion and reducing risk.
    • Ethnic, Cultural, and Spiritual Variations boxes help you anticipate the unique needs of a multicultural patient population.
    • Newly combined Health Assessment Across the Life Span unit contains four separate chapters that cover all lifespan content, including older adults, pregnant patients, and infants, children, and adolescents.
    • NEW! Synthesis and Application of Health Assessment unit details how to conduct, document, and adapt the head-to-toe assessment.
  • I. Foundations for Health Assessment

    1. Importance of Health Assessment

    2. Interviewing Patients to Obtain a Health History

    3. Techniques and Equipment for Physical Assessment

    4. General Inspection and Measurement of Vital Signs

    5. Ethnic, Cultural, and Spiritual Considerations

    6. Pain Assessment

    7. Mental Health and Abusive Behavior Assessment

    8. Nutritional Assessment

    II. Health Assessment of the Adult

    9. Skin, Hair, and Nails

    10. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat

    11. Lungs and Respiratory System

    12. Heart and Peripheral Vascular System

    13. Abdomen and Gastrointestinal System

    14. Musculoskeletal System

    15. Neurologic System

    16. Breasts and Axillae

    17. Reproductive System and the Perineum

    III. Health Assessment Across the Life Span

    18. Developmental Assessment Throughout the Life Span

    19. Assessment of the Infant, Child, and Adolescent

    20. Assessment of the Pregnant Patient

    21. Assessment of the Older Adult

    IV. Synthesis and Application of Health Assessment

    22. Conducting a Head-to-Toe Examination

    23. Documenting the Head-to-Toe Health Assessment

    24. Adapting Health Assessment to an Ill Patient

    Appendixes

    A. Health History Using Functional Health Patterns

    B. Conversion Tables

    C. Abbreviations

    D. Answer Key

  • Susan Fickertt Wilson, PhD, RN, Emeritus Associate Professor, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas and Jean Foret Giddens, PhD, RN, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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