Assessment made incredibly easy!

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (Added Author).

Summary: "Assessment Made Incredibly Easy, 5e presents nursing assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. With an appealing 4-color interior and light-hearted humor throughout, 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. The Practice Makes Perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX(r)-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website offers ancillary materials, including an image bank, printable study cards, and numerous games newly added for this 5th edition"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781451147278 (pbk.)
Physical Description: vi, 405 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013]

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Beginning the assessment -- 1. Health history -- 2. Fundamental physical assessment techniques -- 3. Nutritional assessment -- 4. Mental health assessment -- pt. 2. Assessing body systems -- 5. Skin, hair, and nails -- 6. Neurologic system -- 7. Eyes -- 8. Ears, nose, and throat -- 9. Cardiovascular system -- 10. Respiratory system -- 11. Breasts and axillae -- 12. Gastrointestinal system -- 13. Female genitourinary system -- 14. Male genitourinary system -- 15. Musculoskeletal system -- Appendices and index -- Practice makes perfect -- Glossary -- Selected references -- Credits -- Index.