cover image - Student Laboratory Manual for Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780323763257
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 04-12-2021
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $38.99

Student Laboratory Manual for Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition

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

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cover image - Student Laboratory Manual for Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition
ISBN: 9780323763257
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 04-12-2021
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $38.99
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Give your students the review and practice they need to master comprehensive health assessment skills! Corresponding to the major chapters in Wilson & Giddens’ Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 7th Edition, this practical laboratory manual guides students through an assessment lab session for each of the textbook’s major topics and examination procedures. Step-by-step worksheets serve as a guide to techniques and as practice in documenting a comprehensive physical examination. New Performance Checklists ensure faculty that students can understand and perform each assessment skill!

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    • NEW! Updated content matches the new Wilson & Giddens Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 7th Edition textbook
    • NEW! Performance Checklists ensure faculty that you have mastered each assessment skill
    • NEW! Updated content matches the new Wilson & Giddens Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 7th Edition textbook
    • NEW! Performance Checklists help you ensure that students have mastered each assessment skill
    • Comprehensive guide equips students to practice assessment skills in the health assessment laboratory
    • Perforated worksheets are included for each major chapter of the Wilson & Giddens Health Assessment for Nursing Practice textbook
    • Dual function lets this lab manual serve as both a guide and as practice in documenting a comprehensive health assessment and physical examination
  • Unit I: Foundations for Health Assessment
    1. Introduction to 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

    Unit 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

    Unit 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

    Unit IV: Synthesis and Application of Health Assessment
    22. Conducting a Head-to-Toe Examination
  • 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, ANEF, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA
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