TY - BOOK AU - Dillon, Patricia M. TI - Nursing health assessment : clinical pocket guide / SN - 9789746520898 AV - RT 48 .D55 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Philadelphia PB - F.A. Davis Co., KW - NURSING ASSESSMENT KW - NURSING ASSESSMENT -- CASE STUDIES N1 - Health assessment and the nurse -- The Health history -- Approach to the physical assessment -- Assessing pain -- Approach to the mental health assessment -- Teaching the patient -- Assessing wellness -- Assessing nutrition -- Spiritual assessment -- Assessing the integumentary system -- Assessing the head, face, and neck -- Assessing the eye and ear -- Assessing the respiratory system -- Assessing the cardiovascular system -- Assessing the peripheral-vascular and lymphatic systems -- Assessing the breasts -- Assessing the abdomen -- Assessing the female genitourinary system -- Assessing the male genitourinary system -- Assessing the musculoskeletal system -- Assessing the sensory-neurologic system -- Putting it all together -- Assessing the mother-to-be -- Assessing the newborn and infant -- Assessing the toddler and preschooler -- Assessing the school-age child and adolescent -- Assessing the older adult N2 - Follows the "Nursing Health Assessment: A Critical Thinking, Case Studies Approach" textbook chapter by chapter. This work includes: case studies that allow students to differentiate between normal and abnormal; abnormal case studies to augment the normal cases presented in the companion textbook; systems integration exercises; and more ER -