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Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning, Fourth Edition covers the diagnostic reasoning process that providers must follow when assessing an actual case. The text outlines each step of the health assessment process and further demonstrates the link between health history and physical examination. It also provides the healthcare professional with the essential data needed to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan.Key Features and Benefits: Three introductory chapters cover general strategies for health history taking, physical examination, and documentation, and the remaining chapters cover clinical aspects of assessment, and focus on various systemic disordersNew chapters on spiritual, cultural, and nutritional assessmentUpdated chapters on female genitourinary and breast disorders and musculoskeletal disordersPatient health history and physical examination are presented are presented in two columns. The first column gives the action, and the second column lists normal and abnormal findings, and possible diagnoses associated with those findings.Every clinical chapter contains a differential diagnosis of common disorders as well as a section on the assessment of special populationsEach new print copy includes Navigate 2 Premier Access that unlocks a robust online course complete with interactive lectures, eBook with health assessment videos and audio clips, syllabus, instructor resource guide, image bank, practice activities, discussion questions, and testing items. Instructor Resources:VideosLinks to audio clipsInteractive lecturesInstructor Resource GuideCompetency MappingSyllabusAssessmentsPowerPoint slides

Jacqueline Rhoads, PhD, APRN-BC, PMHNP-BE, FAANP' is Professor at Tulane University School of Tropical Medicine. She has earned her PhD from the University of Texas in Austin Texas; post-Master’s degrees in Acute Care NP, Community Health Primary Care Adult NP, Gerontology NP, and Psych Mental Health NP.' She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and was awarded numerous commendations and medals for meritorious 30 year service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps; academic and teaching awards; outstanding' research and practice award; six teaching excellence awards; authored three books for major nursing publishers as well as numerous articles.

Sandra Petersen is Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at the College of Nursing & Health Sciences, School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Tyler, Texas and maintains a private practice, seeing patients in the Dallas and Houston areas.' She was formerly the Program Track Administrator for the Masters in Nursing Leadership Program at UTMB Galveston. She earned her Bachelor's degree in business and biology from East Texas Baptist University and also received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. She has a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas, a post-masters Geriatric Nurse Practitioner certificate from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a post-master’s Family Nurse Practitioner certificate from Northern Kentucky University, a post-masters Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner certificate from Northern Kentucky University, and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Rush University School of Nursing in Chicago, IL. She has authored numerous articles relating to assisted living, memory care, hospice, home care, and nursing leadership that have appeared in key related trade journals and throughout various educational documents '