Physical examination & health assessment

• Main Author: Jarvis, Carolyn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis, Mo. Saunders 2004
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Subjects: Physical Examination > methods; Medical History Taking > methods; Nursing Assessment > methods
• Online Access: Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
• Physical Description: xvii, 910 pages colour illustrations 28 cm 1 CD-ROM (43/4 in)
• Format: System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Microsoft Windows 98,2000, NT 4.0, Macintosh 8.6 or later
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780721697734; 0721697739; 9780808922735; 0808922734

"Physical Examination and Health Assessment" provides all the information necessary to conduct a holistic health assessment across the life span. The physical examination unit is organized by body system, pedagogically and clinically the most logical and efficient way to learn and perform health assessment. Each chapter has five major sections: (1) Structure and Function (A (2) Subjective Data (history); (3) Objective Data (skills, expected findings, and common variations for healthy people and selected abnormal findings); (4) Abnormal Findings (illustrations of related disorders and conditions in atlas format); and (5) Application and Documentation (sample charting, clinical case studies, nursing diagnoses, and critical thinking questions tied to the "Saunders" video series)