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Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing
Donita D'Amico
Colleen Barbarito

ISBN-10: 0130493732
ISBN-13: 9780130493736

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 960 pp
Published: 01/13/2006
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Undergraduate nursing in physical and health assessment, the text begins with introductory concepts, such as overall health assessment, conducting a health interview and health history, as well as documentation. The second half is organized by body systems, and each chapter reviews anatomy and physiology, teaches students how to conduct an interview, and walks students through the examination for that body system.

With our three step approach, we will help students prepare for success.

Learn the techniques
Demonstrate your skills
Practice and test yourself

This is a program that combines the text and media in order to create an integrated teaching and learning system. Media is a driving force in this course, possibly more than any other nursing course. With our program, the difference is, the media is chapter specific.

Features

Cultural Considerations boxes are found in each chapter and highlight cultural differences that the nurse should consider while performing an assessment.

Clinical Interaction feature teaches effective communication skills. It presents a brief clinical scenario and interaction between the client and nurse.

Alert! boxes remind students of specific nursing care tips or signs to be aware of when performing a physical assessment, and identify critical findings that the nurse should report immediately.

Equipment boxes help you prepare for the assessment by identifying the equipment you will need to conduct the examination.

Helpful Hints provide suggestions and reminders about conducting the physical assessment.

Key Terms at the beginning of the chapter identify the terminology the student encounters in conducting assessment and the pages where the student can find the definitions.

EXPLORE MediaLink encourages the student to use the Student CD-ROM and Companion Website to apply textbook concepts

Table of Contents

Unit I Introduction to Health Assessment

Chapter 1 - Health Assessment

Chapter 2 - Health Promotion and Wellness

Chapter 3 - Health Assessment Across the Life Span

Chapter 4 - Cultural Considerations

Chapter 5 - Psychosocial Assessment

Unit II Introduction to Physical Assessment

Chapter 6 - Techniques and Equipment

Chapter 7 - General Survey

Chapter 8 - Pain Assessment

Chapter 9 - Nutritional Assessment

Chapter 10 - Health History

Unit III Physical Assessment

Chapter 11 - Skin, Hair, and Nails

Chapter 12 - Head, Neck and Lymphatics

Chapter 13 - Eyes

Chapter 14 - Ear, Nose, Mouth and Throat

Chapter 15 - Respiratory System

Chapter 16 - Breast and Axillae

Chapter 17 - Cardiovascular System

Chapter 18 - Peripheral Vascular System

Chapter 19 - Abdomen

Chapter 20 - Urinary System

Chapter 21 - Male Reproductive and Genitalia

Chapter 22 - Female Reproductive and Genitalia

Chapter 23 - Musculoskeletal

Chapter 24 - Neurologic

Unit IV Physical Assessment Across the Life Span

Chapter 25 - Assessment of Infants and Children

Chapter 26 - Assessment of the Pregnant Female

Chapter 27 - Assessment of the Middle Adult/Older Adult

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Health Assessment (RN)

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Donita D’Amico, RN, M.Ed.

Donita D’Amico, a diploma nursing school graduate, earned her baccalaureate degree in nursing from William Paterson College. She earned a Master’s degree in Nursing Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University with a specialization in Adult Health. Ms. D’Amico has been a faculty member at William Paterson University for more the twenty five years. Her teaching responsibilities include physical assessment, medical-surgical nursing, nursing theory, and fundamentals in the classroom, skills laboratory, and clinical settings. Donita D’Amico coauthored several textbooks. Health Assessment in Nursing and its companion clinical handbookby Sims, D’Amico, Stiesmeyer and Webster. She co-authored Comprehensive Health Assessment: A Student Workbook and Modules for Medication Administration with Dr. Colleen Barbarito. Ms. D’Amico is active in the community. Within the university, she is a charter member of the Iota Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. She continues to serve at the chapter and state levels. She also serves as a consultant and contributor to local organizations.

Colleen Barbarito, Ed.D., RN

Colleen Barbarito received a nursing diploma from Orange Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, graduated with a baccalaureate degree from William Paterson College, and earned a Master’s degree from Seton Hall University, all in New Jersey. She received her Doctor of Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Prior to a position in education, Dr. Barbarito’s clinical experiences included medical-surgical, critical care, and emergency nursing. Dr. Barbarito has been a faculty member at William Paterson University since 1983, where she has taught physical assessment and a variety of clinical laboratory courses for undergraduate nursing students and curriculum development at the graduate level.

Dr. Barbarito co-authored two books with Donita D’Amico--Modules for Medication Administration and Comprehensive Health Assessment:A Student Workbook. She published articles on anaphylaxis in American Journal of Nursing and Coping with Allergies and Asthma. Her research includes physical assessment and a collaboration on revising a physical assessment project with results published as a brief in Nurse Educator. As a faculty member,Dr. Barbarito participated in committees to explore curricular change and to develop multimedia learning modules for critical thinking. Dr. Barbarito is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She was an officer and serves as Faculty Advisor for the Iota Alpha Chapter at William Paterson University.

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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 course:

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 experience animations, 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.

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Instructor's Resource Manual
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Companion Website for Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing
D'Amico
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Live
ISBN-10: 0130493775 | ISBN-13: 9780130493774
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Download MyPAL CourseCompass
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ISBN-10: 0135143950 | ISBN-13: 9780135143957
Online purchase price: $44.00More Info

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Assessment Skills Laboratory Manual
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Clinical Handbook, Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing
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D'Amico
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ISBN-10: 0130493775 | ISBN-13: 9780130493774
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Download MyPAL CourseCompass
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ISBN-10: 0135143950 | ISBN-13: 9780135143957
Online purchase price: $44.00More Info

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