Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing
Health & Physical Assessment in Nursingoffers you the tools to learn the art and skills of health assessment and physical examination.  With their hands-on mentoring style, true integration of text and media-based resources, and over a thousand colorful step-by-step photos, the authors help you develop your interviewing and assessment skills while you achieve their educational and professional goals. Using this textbook, here are the three steps you can take to succeed in this course: 1. Learn the techniques.Read theOverviewandAnatomy and Physiology Reviewin each body system chapter.  Learn and practice your interviewing techniques, follow thePhysical Assessmentprocess, and survey theAbnormal Findings.  The guide inside the front cover of your textbook will help you navigate through the sections of the chapters. 2. Demonstrate your skills.Screen Grab from CD video or animationRead theClinical Interactioninterview, and then follow the story to theCompanion Websiteto apply what you learned.  Read the case study at the end of each chapter, and complete all the exercises and activities on theCompanion Website.  Atwww.prenhall.com/damicoyou can apply what you learned, develop a teaching plan, practice for the NCLEX-RN® exam—and much more. 3. Practice and test yourself.Test what you learned through a variety of activities and exercises tailored to your style of learning.  You can experience animations, tutorials, review questions, real-life cases, and practice NCLEX-RN® questions.  To access these rich resources, use theStudent CD-ROMand theCompanion Websiteatwww.prenhall.com/damico.  Practice physical assessment techniques inour virtual skills lab powered by Prentice Hall’s OneKey. MyAssessmentLabPowered by Prentice Hall’sOneKey,MyAssessmentLaboffers Internet-based course management tools that accompanyHealth & Physical Assessment. MyAssessmentLabprovides dependable and easy-to-use online homework, guided videos and animation tutorials, multimedia, and tests to help instructors reinforce and expand upon the concepts they deliver in class and the skills lab. It provides a rich, flexible set of course materials, along with course management tools that make it easy to deliver all or a portion of the course online.  All of the interactive features ofBlackBoardandWebCtare available to the class, such as discussion board, email, announcements, a calendar, chat rooms, and more.