Health Assessment For Nursing Practice

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This full-color spiral-bound pocket guide provides quick access to all aspects of the nursing health history and physical examination. It includes key topics and questions for health promotion, common symptoms, and sentinel symptoms requiring immediate medical intervention. This clinical guide is a perfect companion to Jensen's Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach.

NEW! Adapting Health Assessment to an Ill Patient chapter explains special techniques for performing a head-to-toe assessment of a patient in a hospital setting, illustrated with a series of new examination photos. UNIQUE! Case Studies with Clinical Reasoning Questions strengthen your critical thinking skills with algorithms focusing on noticing, interpreting, and responding. NEW and UNIQUE! Quality and Safety Competencies for Nurses (QSEN) tables address assessment competencies related to patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. Health Promotion for Evidence-Based Practice boxes outline new Healthy People 2020 objectives and include thorough discussions of recommendations for health promotion and reducing risk. Ethnic, Cultural, and Spiritual Variations boxes help you anticipate the unique needs of a multicultural patient population. Newly combined Health Assessment Across the Life Span unit contains four separate chapters that cover all lifespan content, including older adults, pregnant patients, and infants, children, and adolescents. NEW! Synthesis and Application of Health Assessment unit details how to conduct, document, and adapt the head-to-toe assessment.

Forlagets beskrivelse: Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach reflects a progressive and modern view of nursing practice, featuring innovative elements that facilitate understanding of how best to obtain accurate data from patients. It includes thorough and comprehensive examinations for each specific topic, and also presents strategies for adapting questions and techniques when communication is challenging, the patient's responses are unexpected, or the patient's condition changes over time. Unique features assist with application and analysis, enhancing critical thinking skills and better preparing readers for practice. Each chapter includes a case study that requires critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning to analyze data, document, plan care, and communicate findings. Additional features, ancillary material, and media related to the book build on the in-text cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures.

HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING PRACTICE, second edition effectively presents nursing-focused physical assessment in an appealing and consistent format. Organized by body system, each chapter contains sections on anatomy and physiology, health history, step-by-step examination procedures, normal to abnormal findings, and common problems and conditions. This new edition includes risk factor boxes, summary of findings tables, clinical applications and critical thinking exercises, and updated content on nutritional assessment. Four new chapters cover mental health, comfort and pain, sleep and rest, and the pregnant client, making this text a complete reference for learning health assessment. Numerous full-color illustrations depict examination procedures and normal and abnormal findings.

Canadian Jensen's Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach reflects a progressive and modern view of Canadian nursing practice, featuring innovative elements that facilitate comprehensive examinations, and unique features that assist with application and analysis, including new symptom analysis boxes. Manuscript is revised to reflect Canadian best practices, standards of health promotion and screening guidelines (e.g., breast health, newborn and infant screenings), as well as Canadian standards of communication and documentation. In addition to the new Canadian Nursing Research provided for each chapter, there are focused health promotion topics, and new critical thinking questions that reflect Canadian national licensing exams and address all question levels (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation). Each chapter also includes a threaded case study that requires critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning to analyze data, document, plan care, and communicate findings. Additional features, ancillary material, and media related to the book build on the in-text cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures.