Student Laboratory Manual for Health Assessment for Nursing Practice

Susan Fickertt Wilson, Jean Foret Giddens (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021 | 7th edition
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
9780323763233 (ISBN)

Infos

Get the review and practice you need to master health assessment skills! Corresponding to the major chapters in Wilson & Giddens' Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 7th Edition, this student laboratory manual guides you 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 that you can understand and perform each assessment skill!



Comprehensive guide allows you to practice assessments 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



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

Autor

Emeritus Associate Professor Susan Fickertt Wilson works at the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Dean Jean Foret Giddens works at the School of Nursing, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.07.2021
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 216 x 276 mm
• Gewicht: 520 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• ISBN-13: 9780323763233 / 9780323763233
• Zustand: Neuware