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/) |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 70
Page 39
... hand side of the page and one number on the right - hand side of the page for each item . PLEASE FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE JUST BEFORE YOU GO TO BED . HASSLES AND UPLIFTS SCALE 0 1 2 3 16. Your job security 0123 0 1 2 3 17. Meeting ...
... hand side of the page and one number on the right - hand side of the page for each item . PLEASE FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE JUST BEFORE YOU GO TO BED . HASSLES AND UPLIFTS SCALE 0 1 2 3 16. Your job security 0123 0 1 2 3 17. Meeting ...
Page 167
... hand directly contacts the body wall . This produces a sound and is used in percussing the infant's thorax or the adult's sinus areas . Indirect percussion is used more often , and involves both hands . The striking hand contacts the ...
... hand directly contacts the body wall . This produces a sound and is used in percussing the infant's thorax or the adult's sinus areas . Indirect percussion is used more often , and involves both hands . The striking hand contacts the ...
Page 647
Carolyn Jarvis. Normal Range of Findings Abnormal Findings 20-23 Wrist and Hand Inspect the hands and wrists on the dorsal and palmar sides , noting posi- tion , contour , and shape . The normal functional position of the hand shows the ...
Carolyn Jarvis. Normal Range of Findings Abnormal Findings 20-23 Wrist and Hand Inspect the hands and wrists on the dorsal and palmar sides , noting posi- tion , contour , and shape . The normal functional position of the hand shows the ...
Contents
Assessment of the Whole Person 1 CHAPTER NINETEEN | 3 |
Physical Examination | 163 |
Assessment for Health and Illness 3 CHAPTER TWENTY | 625 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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