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Renowned for its holistic perspective and “see and do” approach,
Nurses’ Handbook of Health Assessment, 10th Edition delivers streamlined, step-by-step guidance at every phase of nursing assessment to help students ensure accurate and effective assessments across all patient populations. This full-color handbook — updated to reflect the latest clinical insights in
Health Assessment for Nursing, 7th Edition — details everything students need to interview clients and conduct thorough physical assessments with ease, including up-to-date assessment guidelines, full-color anatomy and physiology illustrations, images of normal and abnormal findings, and more — all in a convenient format ideal for today’s on-the-go learning.
Table of Contents
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Unit 1 Nursing Data Collection, Documentation, and Analysis
- Chapter 1 Obtaining a Nursing Health History: Guidelines and Frameworks
- Chapter 2 Performing the Physical Assessment: Skills and Techniques
- Chapter 3 Validating, Analyzing, Documenting, and Communicating Data
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Unit 2 Integrative Holistic Nursing Assessment
- Chapter 4 Assessing Psychosocial, Cognitive, and Moral Development
- Chapter 5 Assessing Mental Status and Substance Abuse
- Chapter 6 Assessing General Health Status and Vital Signs
- Chapter 7 Assessing Pain
- Chapter 8 Assessing for Violence
- Chapter 9 Assessing Nutritional Status
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UNIT 3 Nursing Assessment of Physical Systems
- Chapter 10 Assessing Skin, Hair, and Nails
- Chapter 11 Assessing Head and Neck
- Chapter 12 Assessing Eyes
- Chapter 13 Assessing Ears
- Chapter 14 Assessing Mouth, Throat, Nose, and Sinuses
- Chapter 15 Assessing Thorax and Lungs
- Chapter 16 Assessing Breasts and Lymphatic System
- Chapter 17 Assessing Heart and Neck Vessels
- Chapter 18 Assessing Peripheral Vascular System
- Chapter 19 Assessing Abdomen
- Chapter 20 Assessing Musculoskeletal System
- Chapter 21 Assessing Neurologic System
- Chapter 22 Assessing Male Genitalia and Rectum
- Chapter 23 Assessing Female Genitalia and Rectum
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UNIT 4 Nursing Assessment of Special Groups
- Chapter 24 Assessing Childbearing Women
- Chapter 25 Assessing Newborns and Infants
- Chapter 26 Assessing Older Adults
- Appendices
- 1 Nursing Assessment Form Based on Functional Health Patterns
- 2 Physical Assessment Guide: Pulling It All Together
- 3 Sample Adult Nursing Health History and Physical Assessment
- 4 Assessment of Family Functional Health Patterns
- 5 Child Cognitive (Piaget) And Psychosocial (Erickson) Development (Birth To 18 Years)
- 6 Collaborative Problems
- 7 Spanish Translation for Nursing Health History and Physical Examination
- Index
