Health Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!
4th Edition
Published on 8. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-9752-2222-2 (ISBN)
Description
Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2025!
Health Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! 4th Edition is illustrated with hundreds of drawings, diagrams, and photos to support easy-to-follow, expert nursing instruction on many of the skills needed for head-to-toe physical assessments of every body system. The step-by-step guidance builds your confidence to perform thorough, accurate health assessments from the minute you start your career.
Key features help you move through the content with confidence:
And that’s not all! Look for key points in the margins throughout the book. They are there to explain key concepts, provide important care reminders, and offer reassurance.
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Health Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! 4th Edition is illustrated with hundreds of drawings, diagrams, and photos to support easy-to-follow, expert nursing instruction on many of the skills needed for head-to-toe physical assessments of every body system. The step-by-step guidance builds your confidence to perform thorough, accurate health assessments from the minute you start your career.
Key features help you move through the content with confidence:
- Peak technique illustrates and describes the best ways to perform specific physical examination techniques.
- Bridging the gap explains cultural variables that may influence the health assessment.
- Handle with care pinpoints age-related variations in assessment findings.
- Interpretation station provides sure-fire guidelines for interpreting assessment findings quickly and easily.
- Memory jogger helps the reader remember important points.
- Just for fun provides quick-study information in a gamelike format.
And that’s not all! Look for key points in the margins throughout the book. They are there to explain key concepts, provide important care reminders, and offer reassurance.
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More details
Other editions
Previous edition
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Health Assessment Made Incredibly Visual
Book
11/2016
3rd Edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
€79.51
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Content
Contents
Part I Beginning the assessment
1 Health history
2 Fundamental physical assessment techniques
3 Nutritional assessment
4 Mental health assessment
Part II Assessing body systems
5 Skin, hair, and nails
6 Neurologic system
7 Eyes
8 Ears, nose, and throat
9 Cardiovascular system
10 Respiratory system
11 Breasts and axillae
12 Gastrointestinal system
13 Female genitourinary system
14 Male genitourinary system
15 Musculoskeletal system
Appendices and index
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Part I Beginning the assessment
1 Health history
2 Fundamental physical assessment techniques
3 Nutritional assessment
4 Mental health assessment
Part II Assessing body systems
5 Skin, hair, and nails
6 Neurologic system
7 Eyes
8 Ears, nose, and throat
9 Cardiovascular system
10 Respiratory system
11 Breasts and axillae
12 Gastrointestinal system
13 Female genitourinary system
14 Male genitourinary system
15 Musculoskeletal system
Appendices and index
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