Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781582553917
• ISBN10: 1582553912
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Completely updated for its Third Edition, this book presents assessment skills in the Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to interview patients, obtain complete health histories, perform physical examinations, and interpret findings. Reader-friendly features include abundant photographs, illustrations, cartoons, checklists, and chapter summaries. This edition's expanded Practice Makes Perfect section includes NCLEX(R)-style questions and answers. New charts at the end of each body system chapter review abnormal findings and what conditions those findings might indicate. This edition also provides more information on age-related assessment differences.

Table of Contents

Beginning the assessment	p. 1
Health history	p. 3
Fundamental physical assessment techniques	p. 23
Nutritional assessment	p. 41
Mental health assessment	p. 57
Assessing body systems	p. 69
Skin, hair, and nails	p. 71
Eyes	p. 97
Ears, nose, and throat	p. 121
Respiratory system	p. 149
Cardiovascular system	p. 179
Breasts and axillae	p. 209
Gastrointestinal system	p. 227
Female genitourinary system	p. 251
Male genitourinary system	p. 277
Musculoskeletal system	p. 297
Neurologic system	p. 321
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