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
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Nursing assessment--Methodology--Case studies. Medical history taking--Methodology--Case studies. Periodic health examinations--Methodology--Case studies.