Health Assessment in Nursing is a complete suite of products poised to help both the student and the instructor.

Health Assessment in Nursing Third edition boasts an improved layout, a vibrant new art program, and four new chapters on pain assessment, nutritional assessment, spiritual assessment, and assessment of families using violence.

Contents

Conceptual Overview of Nursing Health Assessment

1. Nurse's role in health assessment: collecting and analyzing data
2. The client in context: cculture, spirituality, family, and community

Nursing Data Colection, Documentation, and Analysis

3. Collecting subjective data
4. Collecting objective data
5. Validating and documenting data
6. Using diagnostic reasoning skills to analyze data

Nursing Assessment of the Adult

7. General survey, mental status exam, and vital signs
8. Pain assessment
9. Nutritional assessment
10. Spiritual assessment
11. Skin, hair and nail assessment
12. Head and neck assessment
13. Eye assessment
14. Ear assessment
15. Mouth, throat, nose, and sinus assessment
16. Thoracic and lung assessment
17. Breast and lymphatic assessment
18. Heart and neck vessel assessment
19. Peripheral vascular assessment
20. Abdominal assessment
21. Female genitalia assessment
22. Male genitalia assessment
23. Anus, rectum, and prostate assessment
24. Musculoskeletal assessment
25. Neurologic assessment
26. Pulling it all together

Nursing Assessment of Special Groups

27. Assessment of the childbearing woman
28. Assessment of newborns and infants
29. Assessment of children and adolescents
30. Asssessment of the frail elderly client
31. Assessment of the family
32. Assessment of families using violence
33. Community assessment

Appendices
Index

The free CD-ROM included with this book offers valuable resources including:

• assessment video walks the user through a comprehensive physical examination
• a video demonstrating accurate collection of vital signs
• access to heart and breath sounds tutorials
• additional exercises

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