Nursing Health Assessment

Includes CD-ROM, "Performing head-to-toe assessment."

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.

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.

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Renowned for its holistic perspective and step-by-step approach, this pocket-size text takes you through every stage of the nursing assessment for adults and special populations. The book’s “see” and “do” guidance provides all that you need to perform a range of common assessment procedures with confidence.

Health assessment is central to effective planning, implementationand evaluation of nursing care. All nurses are accountable for thecare they provide and need to be able to accurately determinepatient needs in order to plan and deliver evidence-based care.Vital notes for nurses: Health assessment provides studentswith the knowledge required to consider the many different factorswhich can influence patient’s health, comfort, well-being andrecovery and to confidently assess patient needs. Vital notes for nurses: Health assessment exploresconcepts of holism, health and illness, factors to consider whenassessing patients, communication skills needed for assessment, andall aspects of holistic assessment including physical,psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors andnutritional needs. * Provides a concise, accessible introduction to healthassessment * Includes physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritualhealth assessment * Explores essential concepts in assessment and care planning * Within the Vital Notes for Nurses series * Adopts a holistic approach