Physical Examination and Health AssessmentThis comprehensive, easy-to-read, full-color textbook is a standard in physical assessment that features a holistic approach and a strong nursing perspective. Step-by-step guidelines demonstrate the skills necessary to take a complete health history and perform a thorough physical examination on clients of all ages and cultural backgrounds, as well as pregnant women. This edition includes over 240 new full-color photographs and illustrations depicting a wide range of conditions. It also contains a new chapter on the pregnant female. Video Critical Thinking Questions in each body system chapter correspond with the Saunders Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series. Nursing diagnoses are separated into Risk and Wellness categories. This edition also includes updated appendices on the 1999 Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule for the U.S. and the CDC Standard Precautions and Transmission-Based Precautions. (Includes a CD ROM with case studies and a FREE SIMON website at: www.harcourthealth.com/SIMON/Jarvis/) |
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... enlarged or tender , check the area they drain for the source of the problem . For example , those in the upper cervical or submandibular area often relate to inflammation or a neoplasm in the head and neck . Follow up on or refer your ...
... enlarged or tender , check the area they drain for the source of the problem . For example , those in the upper cervical or submandibular area often relate to inflammation or a neoplasm in the head and neck . Follow up on or refer your ...
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Carolyn Jarvis. Enlarged Liver An enlarged , smooth and nontender liver occurs with fatty infiltration , portal obstruction or cirrhosis , high ob- struction of inferior vena cava , and lymphocytic leuke- mia . The liver feels enlarged ...
Carolyn Jarvis. Enlarged Liver An enlarged , smooth and nontender liver occurs with fatty infiltration , portal obstruction or cirrhosis , high ob- struction of inferior vena cava , and lymphocytic leuke- mia . The liver feels enlarged ...
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... Enlarged Kidney Enlarged with hydronephrosis , cyst , or neoplasm . May be difficult to distinguish an enlarged kidney from an enlarged spleen because they have a similar shape . Both extend forward and down . However , the spleen may ...
... Enlarged Kidney Enlarged with hydronephrosis , cyst , or neoplasm . May be difficult to distinguish an enlarged kidney from an enlarged spleen because they have a similar shape . Both extend forward and down . However , the spleen may ...
Contents
Assessment of the Whole Person 1 CHAPTER NINETEEN | 3 |
Physical Examination | 163 |
Assessment for Health and Illness 3 CHAPTER TWENTY | 625 |
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abdominal Abnormal Findings ABNORMAL FINDINGS Table activity adolescent Aging Adult alcohol artery Ask the person assessment Auscultation behavior birth blood pressure body breast breath cancer cause cervix chest child chronic clinical CLINICAL CASE STUDY color cranial nerve cultural cyanosis decreased DEVELOPMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS diastolic disease edema enlarged feel Female FINDINGS ABNORMAL FINDINGS fingers fluid function glands growth hair head heart heart sounds Hispanic hypertension Impaired increased infection Inspect joint lesions loss lung motor muscle Native Americans nodes Normal Range Note Nurs NURSING DIAGNOSES nutritional Objective Data occurs older otitis media otoscope pain palpate parents patient percent percussion position posterior Pract pregnancy problems pulse Range of Findings reflex respiratory response risk sclera screening scrotum self-care sexual side skin sounds stethoscope swelling symptoms syndrome systolic tenderness tion tissue trauma usually uterus vaccine vaginal valve veins weight women