Physical Examination and Health AssessmentThis textbook features a holistic approach and a strong nursing perspective for assessment of the individual across the lifespan. This edition includes two new chapters: Transcultural Considerations in Assessment, and Critical Thinking in Health Assessment. Other features include: age-specific charts for Periodic Health Exam detail; guidelines for interviewing clients and performing a thorough physical examination; communication skills, including clinical examples of interviewer responses; sample clinical problems, in subjective/objective/assessment/plan (SOAP) format; a translation table containing common health and physical examination questions in English and Spanish; and a demonstration of how nursing diagnoses are derived from assessment. |
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... tables , including Table 17-10 : Clinical Portrait of Congestive Heart Failure , Table 18-5 : Peripheral Artery dis- ease Occlusions and Aneurysms , Table 16-8 : Tuberculosis , and Table 10-10 : Skin Lesions As- sociated with AIDS . The ...
... tables , including Table 17-10 : Clinical Portrait of Congestive Heart Failure , Table 18-5 : Peripheral Artery dis- ease Occlusions and Aneurysms , Table 16-8 : Tuberculosis , and Table 10-10 : Skin Lesions As- sociated with AIDS . The ...
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... tables , es- pecially Table 20-6 . Ankylosing Spondylitis ( not illustrated ) Chronic progressive inflammation of spine , sacroiliac , and larger joints of the extremities , leading to bony anky- losis and deformity . Affects primarily ...
... tables , es- pecially Table 20-6 . Ankylosing Spondylitis ( not illustrated ) Chronic progressive inflammation of spine , sacroiliac , and larger joints of the extremities , leading to bony anky- losis and deformity . Affects primarily ...
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... Table 18-4 : ( ischemic ulcer ) : From the Clinical Slide Col- lection on the Rheumatic Diseases , the Arthritis Foundation , 1972 ( reprinted from the Revised Clinical Slide Collection on the Rheumatic Diseases , copyright 1981. Used ...
... Table 18-4 : ( ischemic ulcer ) : From the Clinical Slide Col- lection on the Rheumatic Diseases , the Arthritis Foundation , 1972 ( reprinted from the Revised Clinical Slide Collection on the Rheumatic Diseases , copyright 1981. Used ...
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