Pocket guide for nursing health assessment
Subtitle: a best practice approach
By: Sharon Jensen
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781582558462
Subjects: Nursing assessment; Nursing Assessment; Handbooks, manuals; Handbooks
Description: "This full-color spiral-bound pocket guide provides quick access to all aspects of the nursing health history and physical examination. It includes a quick guide to assessing the hospitalized patient and key topics and questions for health promotion, common symptoms, and sentinel symptoms requiring immediate medical intervention. This clinical guide is a perfect companion to Jensen's Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interview and Health History; title: Overview of Physical Examination; title: General Survey, Vital Signs, and Pain Assessment; title: Nutrition Assessment; title: Mental Health Assessment; title: Skin, Hair, and Nails Assessment; title: Head and Neck Assessment; title: Eyes Assessment; title: Ears Assessment; title: Nose, Sinuses, Mouth, and Throat Assessment; title: Thorax and Lungs Assessment; title: Heart and Neck Vessels Assessment; title: Peripheral Vascular with Lymphatics Assessment; title: Breasts with Lymphatics Assessment; title: Abdominal Assessment; title: Musculoskeletal Assessment; title: Neurological Assessment; title: Male Genitalia and Rectal assessment; title: Female Genitalia and Rectal assessment; title: Adult Head-to-Toe Examination; title: Pregnant Women; title: Children; title: Older Adults.