Health Assessment and Physical Examination

ISBN-10
0170211657
ISBN-13
9780170211659
Series
Health Assessment and Physical Examination
Category
Nursing assessment
Pages
944
Language
English
Published
2012
Authors
Mary Ellen Zator Estes, Pauline Calleja, Karen Theobald

Description

This first Australia and New Zealand edition of the comprehensive Estesa Health Assessment and Physical Examination is designed to teach students to assess a patienta s physical, psychological, cultural and emotional dimensions of health as a foundation of nursing care. The skills of interviewing, inspection, percussion, palpation, auscultation, and documentation are defined to help students to make clinical assessments and promote healthy patient outcomes. A strong emphasis on science encompasses all the technical aspects of anatomy, physiology and assessment, while highlighting clinically relevant information. Emphasis on caring is displayed through themes of assessment of the whole person, which also encourages nurses to think about care for themselves as well as patients.

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