Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Completely updated, this edition presents assessment skills in a reader-friendly format that makes learning fun. The text provides nurses with the know-how they need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings.
Synopsis
Completely updated for its Third Edition, this book presents assessment skills in the Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to interview patients, obtain complete health histories, perform physical examinations, and interpret findings. Reader-friendly features include abundant photographs, illustrations, cartoons, checklists, and chapter summaries. This edition's expanded Practice Makes Perfect section includes NCLEX(R)-style questions and answers. New charts at the end of each body system chapter review abnormal findings and what conditions those findings might indicate. This edition also provides more information on age-related assessment differences.
Synopsis
This package contains the following products:
9780781779104 Springhouse Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series®
9781608311651 Ralph Sparks and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, North American Edition
9780781793834 Taylor Fundamentals of Nursing, North American Edition
9780781793865 Taylor Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing
9781608311255 Billings Lippincott's Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN®, North American Edition
Table of Contents
Contributors and consultants Not another boring foreword
Part I Beginning the assessment
Appendices and Index
Practice makes perfect
Glossary
Selected references