Health Assessment for Nursing Practice, 6th Edition Susan Fickertt Wilson

Health Assessment for Nursing Apply, 6th Edition Susan Fickertt Wilson

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   0323377769
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   978-0323377768Today’s nursing college students are busier and extra pressed for time than ever. The excellent news is that Health Assessment for Nursing Apply, 6th Edition caters to your wants by focusing solely on the knowledge you have to grasp the core evaluation abilities and thrive in medical follow. Along with its targeted content material, you’ll be able to look ahead to easy and easy-to-understand language; vivid pictures; clear web page layouts; and naturally the newest info on topical issues like digital documentation, QSEN competencies, and cultural concerns. Plus, with its abundance of participating studying instruments ― like case research, process movies, animations, and insightful call-outs ― you’ll have the ability to maximize your studying AND research time!

   • Easy, easy-to-understand protection provides readers the data and confidence to carry out an entire bodily examination.
   • Clear differentiation between primary abilities and superior procedures or special-circumstance procedures helps readers pinpoint important assessments.
   • Two-column format creates a visible distinction between regular and irregular findings and strategies.
   • Vivid full-color pictures stroll readers step-by-step by way of key evaluation strategies to higher perceive key abnormalities.
   • UNIQUE! Idea Overview bins current core ideas within the context of well being evaluation, with discussions of ache, oxygenation, perfusion, tissue integrity, movement, sensory notion, metabolism, and intracranial regulation.
   • UNIQUE! Scientific Reasoning bins clarify the thought technique of an skilled nurse making a medical determination to assist readers acquire professional perspective on medical judgment and the decision-making course of in nursing follow.
   • UNIQUE! Sufferers with Situational Variations sections deal with particular circumstances or wants for sufferers in wheelchairs or different limitations and examination variations.
   • Documenting Anticipated Findings sections show learn how to chart regular findings — a perpetual space of wrestle amongst nursing college students.
   • Assessment questions within the e-book assist assess reader’s understanding of need-to-know content material.
   • UNIQUE! Case research on the finish of every chapter give readers follow in growing medical reasoning abilities within the context of well being evaluation and bodily examination.
   • UNIQUE! Adapting Health Assessment to the Hospitalized Affected person chapter explains particular strategies for performing a head-to-toe evaluation of a affected person in a hospital setting.
   • Health Promotion for Proof-Based mostly Apply bins apply the U.S. authorities’s Wholesome Individuals 2020 goals and embrace thorough discussions of suggestions for well being promotion and decreasing threat.
   • Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Variations bins assist readers anticipate the distinctive wants of a multicultural affected person inhabitants.
   • Health Assessment Throughout the Life Span unit comprises 4 separate chapters that cowl all lifespan content material, together with older adults, pregnant sufferers, and infants, kids, and adolescents.
   • Synthesis and Software of Health Assessment unit particulars learn how to conduct, doc, and adapt the head-to-toe examination.

   • NEW! Refocused and streamlined content material eliminates “content material saturation” by drastically decreasing the quantity of superior follow and examination procedures, strategies, and content material which can be relevant to nurse practitioner ranges; thus preserving readers targeted on the most typical and necessary learnings and procedures.
   • NEW! Pupil laboratory handbook (bought individually) supplies a useful useful resourcefor mastering bodily examination.
   • NEW! Improved web page structure includes a much less cluttered and extra reader-friendly look because of the elimination of extraneous tables and illustrations.
   • NEW! Improved textual content design contains up to date fonts, pictures, and illustrationsto make the fabric extra readable and the ideas easier-to-understand.
   • NEW! Two new idea overviews incorporate the physiological ideas of metabolism and vitamin into textual content materials.
   • NEW! Up to date digital documentation content material ensures accuracy and congruency with probably the most present expertise and greatest practices.
   • NEW! Up to date ethnic/cultural/religious variations content material displays the newest developments presently being seen in follow at this time.