Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing

Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing offers you the tools to learn the art and skills of health assessment and physical examination. With their hands-on mentoring style, true integration of text and media-based resources, and over a thousand colorful step-by-step photos, the authors help you develop your interviewing and assessment skills while you achieve their educational and professional goals. Using this textbook, here are the three steps you can take to succeed in this 1. Learn the techniques. Read the Overview and Anatomy and Physiology Review in each body system chapter. Learn and practice your interviewing techniques, follow the Physical Assessment process, and survey the Abnormal Findings . The guide inside the front cover of your textbook will help you navigate through the sections of the chapters. 2. Demonstrate your skills. Screen Grab from CD video or animation Read the Clinical Interaction interview, and then follow the story to the Companion Website to apply what you learned. Read the case study at the end of each chapter, and complete all the exercises and activities on the Companion Website . At www.prenhall.com/damico you can apply what you learned, develop a teaching plan, practice for the NCLEX-RN exam—and much more. 3. Practice and test yourself. Test what you learned through a variety of activities and exercises tailored to your style of learning. You can experienceanimations, tutorials, review questions, real-life cases, and practice NCLEX-RN questions. To access these rich resources, use the Student CD-ROM and the Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/damico . Practice physical assessment techniques in our virtual skills lab powered by Prentice Hall’s OneKey. MyAssessmentLab Powered by Prentice Hall’s OneKey , MyAssessmentLab offers Internet-based course management tools that accompany Health & Physical Assessment. MyAssessmentLab provides dependable and easy-to-use online homework, guided videos and animation tutorials, multimedia, and tests to help instructors reinforce and expand upon the concepts they deliver in class and the skills lab. It provides a rich, flexible set of course materials, along with course management tools that make it easy to deliver all or a portion of the course online. All of the interactive features of BlackBoard and WebCt are available to the class, such as discussion board, email, announcements, a calendar, chat rooms, and more.