Description
Health Assessment Made Incredibly Visual! Second Edition helps nurses master patient assessment by combining images and clear, concise text to graphically demonstrate how to perform each assessment technique. Hundreds of detailed and colorful photographs, diagrams, charts, and other visual aids guide nurses through each step of performing a head-to-toe physical examination and identifying normal and abnormal findings. The visual presentation is a particular benefit for such concepts as patient positioning, hand placement during examination, stethoscope placement during auscultation, and more.
This thoroughly updated edition has a new pregnancy chapter that focuses on prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum assessment. Other highlights include cultural assessment information that meets the Joint Commission requirements.
Features
--NEW! Thorough review and update of all content
--A body-system, head-to-toe format that provides a review of relevant anatomy and physiology in each section and takes the reader through each step of performing a thorough physical examination and identifying normal and abnormal findings
--Hundreds of detailed color photographs, diagrams, charts, and other visual presentations foster an understanding of complex information
--Icons:
— Best Picture: graphically displays the best way to perform a procedure or assessment technique
— Memory Board: visual mnemonics that help nurses understand and remember difficult concepts
— Outside the Norm: illustrations or photographs of abnormal findings
— Take Note: lifelike charts that illustrate how to correctly document findings
--Full color throughout
--Unique "Vision Quest" section at end of each chapter includes puzzles to test the reader's knowledge of assessment techniques
About the Author(s)
Specs
- Edition: Second
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9781605479736
- Trim Size: 7 x 9
- Pages: 256
- Pub Date: Apr 12, 2010
- Weight: 2.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
A work of art
Contributors and consultants
1. Fundamentals
2. Skin, hair, and nails
3. Eyes and ears
4. Nose, mouth, throat, and neck
5. Respiratory system
6. Cardiovascular system
7. Breasts and axillae
8. Gastrointestinal system
9. Musculoskeletal system
10. Neurologic system
11. Genitourinary system
12. Pregnancy
Selected references
Credits
Index
