Includes bibliographical references and index.

Importance of health assessment -- Interviewing paients to obtain a health history -- Techniques and equipment for physical assessment -- General inspecion and measurement of vital signs -- Pain assessment -- Mental health and abusive behabior assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Skin, hair, and nails -- Heads, eyes, ears, nose, and throat -- Lungs and respiratory system -- Heart and peripheral vascular system -- Abdomen and gastrointestinal system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Neurologic system -- Breast and acillae -- reproductive system and the perineum -- Developmental assessment throughout the life span -- Assessment of the infant, child and adolescent -- Assessment of the pregnant patient -- Assessment of the older adult -- Conducting a head-to-toe examination -- Documentating the comprehensive health assessment -- Adapting health assessment to the hospitalized patient

Health assessment for nursing pracive is organized into four units to assesst students and faculty efficiently to find their areas of interest.