PDF-(BOOK)-Mosby\'s Guide to Physical Examination

This comprehensive textbook of physical examination history taking and health assessment is distinguished by its unique author team of two physicians and two nurses Their blend of expertise results in an unusually broad multidisciplinary perspectivea unique emphasis on differential diagnosisand an uncommonly compassionate patientcentered approach Whats more their expertise in both adult health and pediatrics fosters an especially thorough emphasis on lifespan considerations The book also features one of the most extensive art programs found in any physical examination textparticularly with regard to abnormalities This 5th Edition features increased coverage of evidencebased practice and complementary and alternative therapiesas well as enhanced illustrations and a stateoftheart ancillary collectionLifespan considerations are highlighted in subsections on Infants and Children Adolescents Pregnant Women and Older AdultsRisk Factors boxes point out predispositions to various disordersSummary of Examination boxes help readers ensure that they have mastered the necessary examination stepsMnemonics boxes highlight practical memory aids to essential physical characteristicsPhysical Variations boxes call attention to key differences in particular racialethniccultural groupsFunctional Assessment boxes help readers to focus on the impact of diseases and disorders on patient functionSample Documentation boxes demonstrate how to record findingsExtensive appendices pull together essential reference material including growth charts conversion tables abbreviations and moreSpanish version of 3rd edition also available ISBN 8481741655. This concise pocket-sized guide presents the classic Bates approach to physical examination and history taking in a quick-reference outline format. The book features a beautiful full-color art program and an easy-to-follow two-column format with step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right.This edition\'s health promotion sections have been extensively updated and expanded in all chapters. Detailed information on pain assessment is now included in the general survey, vital signs, and pain chapter. A new chapter presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care. An all-in-one resource covering the basics of point-of-care assessment and intervention, Mosby\'s Field Guide to Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction helps you master the skills you need to become competent in occupational therapy (OT) or as an occupational therapy assistant (OTA). It is ideal for use as a clinical companion to Mosby\'s bestselling texts, Pedretti\'s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction and Physical Dysfunction Practice Skills for the Occupational Therapist Assistant. Expert information covers anatomy, assessment tools, screening tools, and more, and is provided in a compact format that\'s easy to use on the go.A quick-reference format uses illustrations, charts, and tables to organize key data.Logical, easy-to-find sections are organized and based on the OT Framework covering evaluation, intervention, intervention plan, and service management, making it easy to find essential facts, procedures, and applications.UNIQUE! Expert Advice tips and Pearls provide helpful pediatric and geriatric information that can be applied in the clinical setting.Basic guidelines refer back to leading textbooks, Pedretti\'s Occupational Therapy and Physical Dysfunction Practice Skills for the Occupational Therapist Assistant, for more detailed information.Coverage of all patient populations includes adult, pediatric, mental health, and neurological conditions.Convenient index makes it easy to locate tools you need to evaluate or treat a specific region or area.Pocket size and lay-flat binding provide convenience and portability for easy reference. Revised and updated, this text provides a foundation for learning to perform physical examination and history taking. It seeks to prompt students to ask the right questions and to understand the answers. A logical two-column format places examination procedures and proper techniques on the left, and common abnormalities and possible interpretations on the right. Illustrations are strategically placed adjacent to relevant information, and tables of abnormalities appear at the end of each chapter, enabling the reader to compare and contrast abnormal findings. Take charge of your learning with this comprehensive lab manual and student workbook. Activities and resources include learning objectives, chapter reviews, multiple-choice questions, terminology reviews, application activities, case studies, and critical thinking questions. Answers at the back facilitate both learning and review. The new edition offers expanded application activities and an emphasis on evidence-based practice.A comprehensive revision of terminology review, critical thinking exercises and application exercises aids studying. Practice questions are revised from knowledge and comprehension to application, analysis, and evaluation. Selected as a Doody\'s Core Title for 2022!Continuing a legacy of excellence that spans nearly five decades, Bates’ Nursing Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 3rd Edition, adapts the proven techniques and vibrant visuals of Bates’ gold-standard assessment text specifically for the needs of today’s nursing students. Thoroughly updated, evidence-based coverage emphasizes the healthy patient and clearly details common findings and diseases to help students develop and practice key skills in physical examination and history taking. Content is logically organized by Foundations, Body Systems, and Special Lifespan Considerations, incorporating essential review of anatomy and physiology, as well as critical practice in health history review, recording findings, and health promotion. Reflecting the latest research in the field, including emerging issues such as vaping, the opioid crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the 3rd Edition combines trusted approaches with current clinical perspectives to equip your students for success throughout their nursing careers.   The gold standard in physical assessment has now been adapted exclusively for the needs of the RN-student. Based on the award-winning Bates\' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking, this NEW TEXT combines the renowned features of the class Bates’ with an RN-focus. Trusted and time-perfected content including superior assessment techniques, vibrant visuals, and the classic Bates’ two-column format delivers assessment information in a comprehensive and student-friendly package. This new, RN-specific text contains some NEW, ADDITIONAL nursing-specific chapters: Introduction to Health Assessment, Cultural and Spiritual Assessment, Nutrition, and Putting It All Together. In addition, structure and function information is streamlined, health history is symptom and interview-focused, nursing documentation examples are included, data analysis is covered in end-of-chapter summary sections, health promotion is streamlined with a focus on follow-up and teaching at the end of the chapters.The text is accompanied by a Lab Manual that incorporates nursing-specific case studies to reinforce content from a nursing perspective.This text can also be packaged with the Bates for Nursing Online course for a complete nursing assessment solution. Mosby\'s Guide to Physical Examination is a comprehensive textbook of physical examination, history-taking, and health assessment with a unique emphasis on differential diagnosis and variations across the lifespan. The book conveys a uniquely compassionate, patient-centered approach to physical examination with a strong evidence-based foundation.Clinical Pearls boxes give brief clinical insights with expert tips on techniques, findings, and patient teaching.Mnemonic boxes deliver engaging auditory, visual, and other memory cues to help you remember series of assessment or exam steps.Physical Variations boxes detail multicultural considerations for assessing patients from diverse ethnic and cultural groups.Staying Well boxes describe holistic approaches to health promotion and patient teaching.Risk Factors boxes highlight modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for a variety of conditions.Differential Diagnosis boxes give comparisons of expected findings for similar conditions and explain how disease presentations vary.Physical Examination boxes provide current data on the most effective techniques for delivering quality patient care.Functional Assessment boxes focus on the patient\'s functional abilities and present a holistic approach to patient care.Downloadable text and PDA summaries allow for quick review of the key steps in each system exam.Dynamic learning exercises on the companion website test your knowledge and provide instant feedback on your progress. Updates throughout reflect the latest research findings and evidence-based practice for techniques, normal and abnormal findings, genetics, and assessment.60 video clips demonstrate exam techniques for each system and are downloadable for use on Video iPod devices.25 new anatomy and physiology animations provide narrated explanations of processes beneath the skin.New audio chapter summaries, downloadable for use on MP3 players, offer a convenient way to review key content on the go.New 3-column tables featuring Pathophysiology, Subjective Data, and Objective Data provide an illustrated reference that allows for quick and accurate comparisons.75 new illustrations and dozens of new photos of normal and abnormal findings help to clarify anatomic concepts and exam techniques. A concise, pocket-sized guide to physical examination and companion to Seidel et al, Mosby\'s Guide to Physical Examination, 5th Edition, this beautifully illustrated, full-color clinical manual provides convenient, portable access to comprehensive guidance in physical examination. A dynamic author team gives the Handbook an uncommonly strong multidisciplinary perspective, emphasis on differential diagnosis, and expert coverage of both pediatrics and adult health. Color-coded type is used to make examination steps, expected findings, and unexpected findings easy to spot quickly. And now, a new appendix puts a variety of guides to special patient histories at readers\' fingertips.Each chapter begins with a concise, clearly identified equipment list.Easy-to-follow, color-coded tables summarize the core examination content in each chapter. Examination Techniques appear in red, Expected Findings appear in blue, and Unexpected Findings appear in green.Pediatric Variations tables, also color coded for easy reference, highlight differences in younger patients\' disease presentations.Sample Documentation sections at the end of each chapter provide straightforward examples of good documentation practice.A removable, pocket-sized quick-reference card inside the back cover presents a comprehensive at-a-glance reminder list of key elements of assessment for every body system and region. One side covers Physical Examination-Objective Data, and the other covers History-Subjective Data.Pages for Clinical and Reference Notes are interspersed throughout the book for personal clinical note-taking.Handy, two-column Aids to Differential Diagnosis tables summarize abnormalities and their distinguishing characteristics.A separate chapter on Blood Vessels provides expanded coverage on examination of the vascular systemAn appendix entitled Quick Reference to Special Histories includes the CAGE Questionnaire, the TACE Questionnaire, the RAFFT QuestionnaireEach chapter begins with a concise, clearly identified equipment listPediatric Variations tables, color coded for easy reference, highlight differences in younger patients\' disease presentationsSample Documentation sections at the end of each chapter provide straightforward examples of good documentation practice Seidel\'s Guide to Physical Examination 9th Edition offers a uniquely interprofessional, patient-centered, lifespan approach to physical examination and health assessment. This new edition features an increased focus on patient safety, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based practice, along with an emphasis on the development of good communication skills and effective hands-on examination techniques. Each core chapter is organized into four sections - Anatomy and Physiology, Review of Related History, Examination and Findings, and Abnormalities - with lifespan content integrated into each area. Written by an author team comprised of advance practice nurses and physicians with specialties in the care of adults, older adults, and children, this one-of-a-kind textbook addresses health assessment and physical examination for a wide variety of disciplines. UNIQUE! Interprofessional, interdisciplinary approach, written by two advanced practice nurses and three physicians, with expertise in both pediatric and adult-geriatric health.UPDATED! Infectious outbreak content addresses the growing problem of global infectious disease outbreaks such as Zika and Ebola and the need for infection precautions.UNIQUE! Cross-references to Dains et al: Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care help you take the next step in your clinical reasoning abilities and provides a more seamless user experience.UNIQUE! Compassionate, patient-centered approach emphasizes developing good communication skills, use of effective hands-on examination techniques, and reliance on clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making.Integrated lifespan content includes separate sections in each chapter on Infants and Children, Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Older Adults. NEW! Emphasis on clinical reasoning provides insights and clinical expertise to help you develop clinical judgment skills.NEW! Enhanced emphasis on patient safety and healthcare quality, particularly as it relates to sports participation.NEW! Content on documentation has been updated with a stronger focus on electronic charting (EHR/EMR). NEW! Enhanced social inclusiveness and patient-centeredness incorporates LGBTQ patients and providers, with special a emphasis on cultural competency, history-taking, and special considerations for examination of the breasts, female and male genitalia, reproductive health, thyroid, and anus/rectum/prostate.NEW! Telemedicine, virtual consults, and video interpreters content added to the Growth, Measurement, and Nutrition chapter.NEW! Improved readability with a clear, straightforward, and easy-to-understand writing style.NEW! Updated drawing, and photographs enhance visual appeal and clarify anatomical content and exam techniques. \"The Ninth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history. The book features a vibrant full-color design with over 1,400 drawings and photographs and a clear, simple two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Highlights of this edition include greater emphasis on patient communication and interview techniques, a new chapter on the older adult, and over 200 new drawings and photographs of abnormalities. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes videos of head-to-toe examination.
Additional student resources now available include an online e-book, more than 15 medical and nursing journal articles, and new videos including Cardiovascular: Neck Vessels and Heart, and Thorax and Lungs.
\" \"Publisher’s Note:   Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Master crucial skills in patient assessment with this nursing adaptation of Bates’ gold standard resource.   Adapted specifically for nursing students, this proven resource offers the time-perfected assessment techniques and vibrant visuals of the classic Bates’ to help students develop and practice key skills in physical examination and history taking. Reflecting the most current research in the field, the Second Edition provides evidence-based coverage of key topics, including complete head-to-toe examination, normal vs. abnormal findings, electronic documentation, and considerations for assessment of older adults and children.  Key Features:A clear two-column format covers examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right to hone students’ observation skills and clinical acumen.A vibrant full-color design includes over 1,400 drawings and photographs to clarify key concepts and techniques.New
Concept Mastery Alerts
improve students’ understanding of potentially confusing topics as identified by Lippincott’s adaptive learning platform, powered by PrepU.Key culture and life span information is now highlighted throughout to make the information easier to locate.
Recording Your Findings
sections display samples of patient records to help students organize interview and physical examination information into an understandable documentation format.Tables of Abnormalities deepen student understanding of clinical conditions, what they should be looking for, and why they are asking certain questions.To further support students’ learning, the Second Edition is available packaged with PrepU adaptive quizzing and DocuCare educational electronic health record software. This leading content is also incorporated into Lippincott CoursePoint+, a dynamic learning solution that integrates this book’s curriculum, adaptive learning tools, virtual simulations, real-time data reporting, and the latest evidence-based practice content together into one powerful student learning solution. Lippincott CoursePoint+ improves the nursing students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to prepare them for practice.  \" Take charge of your learning with this comprehensive lab manual and student workbook. Activities and resources include learning objectives, chapter reviews, multiple-choice questions, terminology reviews, application activities, case studies, and critical thinking questions. Answers at the back facilitate both learning and review. The new edition offers expanded application activities and an emphasis on evidence-based practice.A comprehensive revision of terminology review, critical thinking exercises and application exercises aids studying.Practice questions are revised from knowledge and comprehension to application, analysis, and evaluation. A comprehensive textbook of physical examination, history-taking, and health assessment with an emphasis on differential diagnosis and variations across the lifespan. Written by a team of two physicians and two nurses with a blend of expertise in adult health and pediatrics, the book conveys a uniquely compassionate, patient-centered approach to physical examination with a strong evidence-based foundation. Includes a completely updated art and media program -- consisting of 260 new illustrations, with all new examination photos and full motion video exams on the companion CD-ROM. \"With a strong patient-centered approach to care and an author team comprised of nurses and physicians, Seidel\'s Guide to Physical Examination, 8th Edition, addresses teaching and learning health assessment in nursing, medical, and a wide variety of other health-care programs, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. This new edition offers an increased focus on evidence-based practice and improved readability, along with integrated lifespan content and numerous special features such as Clinical Pearls and Physical Variations, Functional Assessment, and Staying Well boxes.Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Examination boxes supply you with current data on the most effective techniques for delivering quality patient care.
Clinical Pearls
lend insights and clinical expertise to help you develop clinical judgment skills.Functional Assessment boxes present a more holistic approach to patient care that extends beyond the physical exam to patients\' functional ability.
Staying Well
boxes focus you on patient wellness and health promotion.Risk Factor boxes provide opportunities for patient teaching or genetic testing for a variety of conditions.Differential diagnosis content offers you an understanding of how disease presentations vary and specific information for how to make diagnoses from similar abnormal findings.Abnormal Findings tables equip you with a quick, illustrated reference that allows for comparisons of various abnormalities along with key symptoms and underlying pathophysiology.Sample Documentation boxes clarify appropriate professional language for the process of recording patient assessment data. NEW! Advance Practice Skills highlighted throughout text makes identification and reference easier for students.NEW! Updated content throughout provides you with cutting-edge research and a strong evidence-based approach to care.NEW! Vital Signs and Pain Assessment Chapter groups important, foundational tasks together for easy reference in one location.NEW! Improve readability ensures content remains clear, straightforward, and easy to understand.NEW! Updated illustrations and photographs enhances visual appeal and clarifies anatomic concepts and exam techniques.\"