Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Ninth Edition with E-Book (Guide to Physical Exam & History Taking (Bates))
by Lynn S Bickley
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care (Nursing Diagnosis Handbook)
by Betty J. Ackley
from Mosby
This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.
- Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
- Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
- A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
- Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
- Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
- A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.
- Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
- Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
- Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
- Covers important information on concept mapping.
- Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
- Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
- Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.
Physical Examination & Health Assessment (Jarvis, Physical Examination & Health Assessment)
by Carolyn Jarvis
from Saunders
With a clear, student-friendly approach, this text provides a solid understanding of how to perform a health assessment. Head-to-toe presentations show the steps of a physical examination in a logical sequence. Detailed illustrations, summary checklists, and new learning resources ensure that you learn all the skills you need to know. It's easy to see why this text is, far and away, #1 in this market!
- Clear, approachable style of writing.
- Over 1,000 full-color illustrations present anatomy and physiology plus examination techniques.
- A two-column format distinguishes normal findings from abnormal findings, using color, step-by-step photos.
- Summary checklists in each body system chapter provide a quick review of exam steps.
- Documentation examples show the charting of normal findings.
- Extensive coverage of culture reflects the importance of diversity and cultural awareness.
- Nursing Diagnoses reflecting the most recent NANDA Taxonomy II terminology.
- Lifespan content is integrated throughout the text to show common variations for all age groups.
- Developmental Care sections cover age-specific content for pediatric, pregnant, and older adult patients.
- Clinical case studies cover focused assessment techniques for patients of different ages in different clinical situations.
- Spanish language translation chart includes key phrases for better communication during a physical examination.
- More than 100 color photographs and drawings are added.
- Abnormal Findings section, in full-color, large-photo atlas format, now differentiates abnormal findings for the student from those for advanced practice.
- Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle boxes highlight essential health promotion material, based on Healthy People 2010 guidelines.
- Unique Reassessment of the Hospitalized Patient chapter provides a focus for hospital-based assessments.
- Functional Assessment of the Older Adult chapter covers the special assessment techniques and findings for geriatric clients.
- A companion CD-ROM helps you apply your skills to realistic patient scenarios, with additional in-depth case studies, a complete head-to-toe examination video, printable health promotion handouts, heart and lung sounds, new bedside reassessment, and the 20 Most Common Conditions.
Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests
by Kathleen Deska Pagana
from Mosby
The 3rd edition of this widely used resource offers superb guidance on diagnostic and laboratory testing for health professionals in both academic and clinical settings. The chapters are organized by test type and each chapter begins with a list of the tests covered within the test type, as well as an overview of that category including specimen collection techniques. The tests are presented in a consistent format that includes normal findings, indications, contraindications, potential complications, interfering factors, procedure and patient care, test results and clinical significance, and related tests. This full-color book is easy to use and covers virtually every clinically significant test, including more than 50 new to this edition.
- A full color interior design and over 140 vivid color photographs and illustrations depict procedures, equipment, techniques, and concepts, making the content more visually appealing to the reader and the concepts easier to understand.
- Comprehensive coverage of all diagnostic and laboratory tests routinely performed today. Over 700 individual tests are covered in approximately 360 entries.
- Clinical Significances of test results, indicated in italic type, explain the pathophysiology of disease processes and how they relate to test results.
- Color-coded chapter thumb-tabs, alphabetically organized chapters, and two lists of all tests (Appendix A, Alphabetical List of Tests and Appendix B, List of Tests by Body System) make every test easy to find.
- Critical Values are highlighted with color to alert the reader to situations requiring immediate intervention.
- Related Tests that provide similar information or are used to evaluate the same body system, disease process, or symptom, are listed after each test entry along with the page number and the purpose of each related test.
- SI units are included in the Normal Findings of appropriate tests.
- Clinical Priorities boxes emphasize especially pertinent information that must be kept in mind when performing or evaluating a test or preparing a patient for a test.
- A special symbol for drug-related interfering factors alerts readers to the effects of pharmacologic agents on tests.
- Icon for patient teaching-related care indicates information that should be shared with patients and their families.
- Home Care Responsibilities provide important patient teaching guidelines and instructions for patients outside of acute care settings.
- Age-Related Concerns boxes address the special needs of pediatric and geriatric patients and critical age-related variations in values.
- Abbreviations for tests are listed in an appendix, and symbols and units of measurement are listed on the front inside cover.
- Increased and decreased abnormal findings are highlighted with directional arrows.
- More than 50 new tests have been added, including discussions of the most recently introduced tests such as bioterrorism infectious agents testing, bone turnover biochemical markers (osteocalcin), diabetes mellitus autoantibody panel, mammary ductoscopy, HIV viral load, natriuretic peptides (including BNP), and thryoglobulin.
- The appendix on Disease and Organ Panels lists the tests in 26 common panels, along with a page reference to the main discussion of each test.
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference
by Kathleen Deska Pagana
from Mosby
With up-to-date, clinically relevant information, Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, 8th Edition is the perfect user-friendly guide to everything you need to know about laboratory and diagnostic tests. Test entries are organized alphabetically, making it perfect for quick reference, and extensive page references help tie together related tests and studies. Each test entry includes, where relevant: alternate or abbreviated test names; type of test; normal findings; possible critical values; test explanation and related physiology; contraindications; potential complications; interfering factors; procedure and patient care (before, during, and after); and abnormal findings. Related tests are extensively cross-referenced throughout the book. Plus, the book's small, portable size and durable cover make it a handy, on-the-spot reference.
- Possible critical values are highlighted to alert the reader to situations requiring immediate intervention.
- A symbol next to drug-related interfering factors highlight the effects of pharmacologic agents on tests.
- Increased and decreased abnormal findings are highlighted with directional arrows.
- Icon for patient teaching-related care indicates information that should be shared with patients and their families.
- Home Care Responsibilities boxes provide important patient teaching guidelines and instructions for patients outside of acute care settings.
- Each test concludes with a Notes section that enables readers to add their own information.
- User's Guide to Test Preparation and Performance provides an overview and guidelines for each type of laboratory test and diagnostic procedure to ensure safety and accuracy.
- Lists of tests by body system and test type allow the reader to quickly locate related studies.
- Abbreviations for tests are listed on the end papers and symbols and units of measurement are listed in an appendix.
- 17 new test entriesincluding Ductoscopy, Thyroglobulin, Lactoferrin, and Human Papillomaviruspresent the latest tests and procedures.
Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination
by Henry M. Seidel
from Mosby
Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination is a comprehensive textbook of physical examination, history-taking, and health assessment with a unique emphasis on differential diagnosis and variations across the lifespan. Written by a team of two physicians and two nurses with a special blend of expertise in adult health and pediatrics, the book conveys a uniquely compassionate, patient-centered approach to physical examination with a strong evidence-based foundation. A completely updated art and media program -- consisting of 260 new illustrations, with all new examination photos, full motion video exams on the companion CD-ROM, a completely new 15-part video series, and expanded Health Assessment Online asset library -- further solidify Seidel's reputation as the best-illustrated, most media rich, physical examination textbook on the market.
- Lifespan considerations are highlighted in clearly delineated subsections called Infants and Children, Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Older Adults.
- Highlights key points of abnormal findings and medical diagnosis in Differential Diagnosis boxes.
- Risk Factors boxes equip examiners to focus on high-risk problems.
- Functional Assessment boxes help practitioners focus on the impact of diseases and disorders on patient function.
- Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Examination boxes support time-tested exam practices with current research
- Documentation content is featured throughout the book in Sample Documentation: History and Physical Examination boxes, and includes both subjective and objective sections.
- Summary of Examination boxes serve as a handy review, with page numbers, to help readers ensure that they have mastered the necessary examination steps.
- Mnemonics boxes highlight practical memory aids to essential physical characteristics.
- Physical Variations boxes highlight key differences in particular racial/ethnic/cultural groups.
- Clinical Pearls boxes help transmit the time-tested wisdom of the author team to new practitioners.
- New video-enhanced Companion CD-ROM packaged with each textbook. Unique icons throughout the text refer the user to the Companion CD-ROM where there are relevant video clips for that specific exam.
- Staying Well boxes provide helpful patient-teaching hints and can be used to encourage health promotion in patients.
- 200 new color photographs and 60 new full-color drawings demonstrate key exam steps
- Expanded SOAP content
- Expanded Domestic violence content
- Separate chapters on Pain and Sports Participation Evaluation, as well as a fresh emphasis on health promotion throughout with the inclusion of Staying Well boxes.
- A new Dietary Reference Intakes appendix
Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment
by Carolyn Jarvis
from Saunders
With exercises and questions in varying formats, key terms, learning objectives, and regional write-up forms, this workbook may be used as a study guide to reinforce understanding or as a clinical tool in the laboratory setting.
- Each chapter is divided into two parts, cognitive and clinical, and contains:
- Purpose - a brief chapter summary
- Reading Assignment - the corresponding chapter and page numbers from the Jarvis text
- Audio-Visual Assignment - the corresponding video assignment from the Saunders Video Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series
- Glossary - terms from the textbook chapter with accompanying definitions
- Study Guide - specific short-answer and fill-in questions. Anatomy illustrations are reproduced from the textbook with labeling exercises
- Review Questions - multiple-choice questions, matching, and short-answer questions
- Clinical Objectives
- Regional Write-up Sheets - physical examination forms to use in the skills lab or clinical setting
- Narrative Summary Forms - SOAP format to chart narrative accounts of the history and physical exam findings
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales (Nurses Pocket Guide)
by Marilynn E. Doenges
from F. A. Davis Company
Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests: With Nursing Implications, 2nd Edition
by Anne M. Van Leeuwen
from F. A. Davis Company
This practical handbook should be used by nursing students in clinical courses and by nurses in clinical settings as a quick reference. It guides the nurse in planning what needs to be assessed, monitored, treated, and taught at every stage of care, including pretest requirements, intratest procedures, and post-test care. This updated edition also will be helpful to all other healthcare professionals who need to know what nurses will do with their patients undergoing laboratory or diagnostic testing. All tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for ease of location, plus the comprehensive, integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease state or condition, organ system, specimen type, or test classification.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications (7th Edition) (LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC TESTS W/ NURSING IMPLICATIONS (KEE))
by Joyce LeFever Kee
from Prentice Hall
Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications is designed to provide readers with the necessary information regarding laboratory and diagnostic tests and corresponding nursing implications. It gives quick, pertinent information about the tests, emphasizing the purposes, procedure and nursing implications with rationale. Laboratory Tests in alphabetical order. Diagnostic Tests in alphabetical order. Laboratory/Diagnostic Assessments of Body Function including 12 categories related to organ system and clinical conditions; each category contains numerous laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered to assist in the diagnosis of disease entities and to determine organ function. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM); the TDM section includes 120 drugs and their therapeutic range, peak time, and toxic level. School Nurse’s Functions: Screening and Testing covers suggested assessment tools for the school nurse. Nursing Students and Professionals. For registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses in hospital settings, including specialty areas such as the ICU, emergency rooms, clinics, health care provider offices, and independent nursing practices.
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