The fourth edition of Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning presents a comprehensive guide for healthcare providers on the diagnostic reasoning process involved in assessing an actual case. The book outlines each step of the health assessment process and demonstrates the link between health history and physical examination, providing the essential data required to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan. It features three introductory chapters on general strategies for health history taking, physical examination, and documentation, with the remaining chapters focusing on clinical aspects of assessment, covering various systemic disorders. The book has new chapters on spiritual, cultural, and nutritional assessment, updated chapters on female genitourinary and breast disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and patient health history and physical examination. Each clinical chapter includes a differential diagnosis of common disorders, as well as a section on the assessment of special populations. The book also includes Navigate 2 Premier Access, which unlocks an online course complete with interactive lectures, an eBook with health assessment videos and audio clips, a syllabus, instructor resource guide, image bank, practice activities, discussion questions, and testing items. Instructors can access videos, links to audio clips, interactive lectures, a resource guide, competency mapping, syllabus, assessments, and PowerPoint slides.
Table of Content
- Part 1 Strategies for Effective Health Assessment
- Chapter 1 Interview and History-Taking Strategies
- Chapter 2 Physical Examination Strategies
- Chapter 3 Documentation Strategies
- Chapter 4 Cultural and Spiritual Assessment
- Chapter 5 Nutritional Assessment
- Part 2 Advanced Assessment of Systemic Disorders
- Chapter 6 Mental Health Disorders
- Chapter 7 Integumentary Disorders
- Chapter 8 Eye Disorders
- Chapter 9 Ear Disorders
- Chapter 10 Nose, Sinus, Mouth, and Throat Disorders
- Chapter 11 Respiratory Disorders
- Chapter 12 Cardiovascular Disorders
- Chapter 13 Endocrine Disorders
- Chapter 14 Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Chapter 15 Neurological Disorders
- Chapter 16 Male Genitourinary Disorders
- Chapter 17 Female Genitourinary and Breast Disorders
- Chapter 18 Musculoskeletal Disorders
Sample - Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning 4th Ed Test Bank
Chapter 1
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