Health Assessment: Nurses's Clinical Guide - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Revised and expanded, this Second Edition gives all the information you need to assess clients quickly, thoroughly, and confidently. In it, you'll find every important assessment detail and every assessment procedure. Special features include: basic and advanced physical assessment techniques; health history questions and rationales to determine a client's health and illness patterns, health promotion and protection behaviors, and role and relationship patterns; full details on assessment equipment and techniques; checklists for physical assessment preparation; thorough and accurate inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation details for each body system or structure; step-by-step illustrated procedures; practical guidelines for assessing nutritional status, activities of daily living, and sleep and wakefulness patterns; special considerations for pediatric, pregnant, breast-feeding, and elderly clients; body system-specific NANDA nursing diagnoses; sample SOAPIE documentation of assessment findings from case studies; quick-scan charts that summarize techniques, normal findings, and special considerations; basic anatomy illustrations that review each body system; easy-to-review charts of normal values for common laboratory tests; comprehensive master glossary for ready reference; guide to illustrations for fast retrieval of vital visual material and all new appendices, including common laboratory tests.

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