Assessment Made Incredibly Easy, 4th Edition

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• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: Incredibly Easy! Series
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master assessment techniques and remember key information. This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website will offer ancillary materials such as an image bank and printable study cards.

✦ Table of Contents

Assessment made Incredibly Easy!®, Fourth edition......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors and consultants......Page 6
Not another boring foreword......Page 7
PART I: Beginning the assessment......Page 9
A look at the health history......Page 11
Beginning the interview......Page 12
Reviewing general health......Page 16
Reviewing structures and systems......Page 22
Quick quiz......Page 29
Scoring......Page 30
Collecting the tools......Page 31
Performing a general survey......Page 32
Performing a physical assessment......Page 40
Recording your findings......Page 44
Quick quiz......Page 47
Scoring......Page 48
A look at nutritional assessment......Page 49
Obtaining a nutritional health history......Page 50
Performing the assessment......Page 52
Abnormal findings......Page 59
Quick quiz......Page 63
Scoring......Page 64
Obtaining a health history......Page 65
Assessing mental status......Page 69
Abnormal findings......Page 75
Quick quiz......Page 79
Scoring......Page 80
PART II: Assessing body systems......Page 81
Anatomy and physiology......Page 83
Obtaining a health history......Page 89
Assessing skin, hair, and nails......Page 90
Abnormal findings......Page 97
Quick quiz......Page 109
Scoring......Page 110
A look at the neurologic system......Page 111
Anatomy and physiology......Page 112
Obtaining a health history......Page 117
Assessing the neurologic system......Page 118
Abnormal findings......Page 131
Quick quiz......Page 141
Scoring......Page 142
A look at the eyes......Page 143
Anatomy and physiology......Page 144
Obtaining a health history......Page 148
Assessing the eyes......Page 150
Abnormal findings......Page 159
Quick quiz......Page 165
Scoring......Page 166
Anatomy and physiology......Page 167
Obtaining a health history......Page 173
Assessing the ears, nose, and throat......Page 175
Abnormal findings......Page 187
Quick quiz......Page 193
Scoring......Page 194
Anatomy and physiology......Page 195
Obtaining a health history......Page 202
Assessing the cardiovascular system......Page 204
Abnormal findings......Page 215
Quick quiz......Page 227
Scoring......Page 228
Anatomy and physiology......Page 229
Obtaining a health history......Page 235
Assessing the respiratory system......Page 237
Abnormal findings......Page 248
Quick quiz......Page 259
Scoring......Page 260
A look at the breasts and axillae......Page 261
Anatomy and physiology......Page 262
Obtaining a health history......Page 266
Assessing the breasts and axillae......Page 269
Abnormal findings......Page 273
Quick quiz......Page 277
Scoring......Page 278
Anatomy and physiology......Page 279
Obtaining a health history......Page 283
Assessing the GI system......Page 285
Abnormal findings......Page 294
Quick quiz......Page 301
Scoring......Page 302
A look at the female GU system......Page 303
Anatomy and physiology......Page 304
Obtaining a health history......Page 309
Assessing the female GU system......Page 312
Abnormal findings......Page 320
Quick quiz......Page 328
Scoring......Page 330
Anatomy and physiology......Page 331
Obtaining a health history......Page 334
Assessing the male GU system......Page 336
Abnormal findings......Page 341
Quick quiz......Page 349
Scoring......Page 350
Anatomy and physiology......Page 351
Obtaining a health history......Page 356
Assessing the musculoskeletal system......Page 357
Abnormal findings......Page 369
Quick quiz......Page 375
Scoring......Page 376
Appendices and index......Page 377
Practice makes perfect......Page 378
Glossary......Page 404
Selected references......Page 407
Credits......Page 408
Index......Page 409