Publisher's Synopsis
Lippincott CoursePoint is the only integrated digital curriculum solution for nursing education. CoursePoint provides a completely integrated and adaptive experience, all geared to help students understand, retain, and apply their course knowledge and be prepared for practice. CoursePoint is structured in the way that students study, providing them the content exactly where and when they need it for a more effective learning experience. The powerful integration of adaptive learning, powered by prepU, with the premium digital course content provides a personalized learning experience that drives students to immediate remediation in their course content and allowing instructors and students assess their progress in real-time. The digital textbook is downloadable, so students will have perpetual access to this content.
978-1-4698-6217-0 Weber Lippincott CoursePoint for Health Assessment in Nursing 5e (includes integrated access to the ebook and adaptive learning, powered by prepU)
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.
Using this text you'll have everything at your fingertips to master the knowledge and assessment skills you'll need in your nursing career.
- Master the "how-to's" of conducting a nursing assessment through the real world Continuing Case Study in every chapter that introduces a client with a health concern, guides you through investigation of symptoms using the COLDSPA mnemonic, and demonstrates a physical assessment, proper documentation techniques, diagnostic reasoning, and appropriate nursing conclusions.
- Access an easy-to-understand tool for data collection with the Collecting Subjective Data: Nursing Health History table, which presents Information in two columns: Questions that you will ask the client and Rationales explaining why the questions are important.
- Master every aspect of the physical examination through the Collecting Objective Data: Physical Examination table, which illustrates physical examination procedures in a step-by-step fashion across three columns: Assessment Procedure (which explains and illustrates exactly how to perform specific aspects of the examination), Normal Findings, and Abnormal Findings.
- Identify important distinctions through hundreds of photos exhibited in the Abnormal Findings displays.
