Nursing health assessment : a best practice approach /
Jensen, Sharon, 1955-
Nursing health assessment : a best practice approach / Sharon Jensen. - Third edition. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, 2019. - xxxi, 982 pages : colored illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
The nurse's role in health assessment -- The health history and interview -- Techniques of assessment and safety -- Documentation and interprofessional communication -- Vital signs and general survey -- Pain assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Assessment of developmental stages -- Mental health, violence, and drug abuse -- Cultural assessment -- Skin, hair, and nails assessment -- Head and neck, with vision and hearing basics -- Eye assessment for advanced and specialty practice -- Ear assessment for advanced and specialty practice -- Nose, sinuses, mouth, and throat -- Thorax and lung assessment -- Heart and neck vessels assessment -- Peripheral vascular and lymphatic assessment -- Breasts and axillae assessment -- Abdominal assessment -- Musculoskeletal assessment -- Neurological and mental status -- Male genitalia and rectal assessment -- Female genitalia and rectal assessment -- Pregnant women -- Newborns and infants -- Children and adolescents -- Older adults -- Assessment of the hospitalized adult -- Head-to-toe assessment of the adult.
9781496349170
2018032854
Nursing assessment--Methodology--Case studies.
Medical history taking--Methodology--Case studies.
Periodic health examinations--Methodology--Case studies.
RT48 / .C355
616.075 / J453n
Nursing health assessment : a best practice approach / Sharon Jensen. - Third edition. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, 2019. - xxxi, 982 pages : colored illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
The nurse's role in health assessment -- The health history and interview -- Techniques of assessment and safety -- Documentation and interprofessional communication -- Vital signs and general survey -- Pain assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Assessment of developmental stages -- Mental health, violence, and drug abuse -- Cultural assessment -- Skin, hair, and nails assessment -- Head and neck, with vision and hearing basics -- Eye assessment for advanced and specialty practice -- Ear assessment for advanced and specialty practice -- Nose, sinuses, mouth, and throat -- Thorax and lung assessment -- Heart and neck vessels assessment -- Peripheral vascular and lymphatic assessment -- Breasts and axillae assessment -- Abdominal assessment -- Musculoskeletal assessment -- Neurological and mental status -- Male genitalia and rectal assessment -- Female genitalia and rectal assessment -- Pregnant women -- Newborns and infants -- Children and adolescents -- Older adults -- Assessment of the hospitalized adult -- Head-to-toe assessment of the adult.
9781496349170
2018032854
Nursing assessment--Methodology--Case studies.
Medical history taking--Methodology--Case studies.
Periodic health examinations--Methodology--Case studies.
RT48 / .C355
616.075 / J453n