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Health Assessment in Nursing, Fifth Edition
Janet R. Weber, RN, EdD
978-1-4511-4280-8 • October 2013 • Hardbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 896 pp. • 1200 Illus. • 500Tables
Innovative, systematic, and easy to understand,
Health Assessment in
Nursing
has already helped thousands of RN-level students develop
the comprehensive knowledge base and expert nursing assessment
skills necessary for accurate collection of client data.
In this revised Fifth Edition, the authors provide in-depth, accurate
information, a compelling Continuing Case Study that covers every step
in the assessment process, a focus on diversity and health assessment
through the lifespan, a striking photo and illustration program that
includes photos of practicing registered nurses and nurse practitioners
performing assessments, dynamic online video clips and animations,
and much more.
Features
• Continuing Case Study: Each chapter introduces a client with a
health concern related to the chapter content; COLDSPA mnemonic
is applied as the nurse explores the health concern; a physical
assessment of the client is demonstrated; proper documentation
technique is applied; diagnostic reasoning is applied and appropriate
nursing conclusions are determined.
• Collecting Subjective Data: The Nursing Health History table:
Information is presented in 2 columns: Questions that the student
will ask the client and Rationales explaining why the questions are
important. Clinical Tips and cultural considerations are included to
help highlight critical content.
• Collecting Objective Data: Physical Examination table: Introduces
ways to prepare the client for the examination including all
equipment needed and key points to remember during the
assessment. Physical examination procedures are fully illustrated in
a step-by-step fashion across three columns: Assessment Procedure
(explains and illustrates exactly how to perform specific aspects of
the examination), Normal Findings and Abnormal Findings.
• Displays of Abnormal Findings: Includes fully-illustrated, common
abnormal findings, helping students to identify important
distinctions.
• Evidence-Based Health Promotion and Disease Prevention boxes
contain Healthy People 2020 goals, Risk Assessment, and Client
Education sections, and are an excellent resource for students to
use to teach the client ways to reduce risk factors.
• Case Study, threaded throughout the chapter, teaches the student
how to apply the COLDSPA mnemonic, interview questions,
physical assessment, and analysis of data to a particular client.
Table of Contents
Unit 1:
Nursing Data Collection,
Documentation, and Analysis
Ch. 1: Nurse’s Role in Health Assessment:
Collecting and Analyzing Data
Ch. 2: Collecting Subjective Data: The
Interview and Health History
Ch. 3: Collecting Objective Data: The
Physical Examination
Ch. 4: Validating and Documenting Data
Ch. 5: Thinking Critically to Analyze Data
and Make Informed Nursing Judgments
Unit 2:
Integrative Holistic Nursing
Assessment
Ch. 6: Assessing Mental Status and Substance
Abuse
Ch. 7: Assessing Psychosocial, Cognitive and
Moral Development
Ch. 8: Assessing General Status and Vital
Signs
Ch. 9: Assessing Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
Ch. 10: Assessing for Violence
Ch. 11: Assessing Culture
Ch. 12: Assessing Spirituality and Religious
Practices
Ch. 13: Assessing Nutritional Status
Unit 3:
Nursing Assessment of
Physical Systems
Unit 4:
Nursing Assessment of Special
Groups
Appendices
A: Nursing History Guide
B: Physical Assessment Guide
C: NANDA Approved Nursing Diagnoses
D: Selected Collaborative Problems
E: Canada’s Food Guide
Glossary
…Abridged to fit
Lab Manual for Health Assessment in Nursing, Fifth Edition
(Revised Reprint)
Janet R. Weber, RN, EdD
978-1-4511-9529-3 •March2014 •Softbound •8.375”x10.875” •304pp. •52 Illus.