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Jarvis's Physical Examination & Health Assessment Pocket Companion

  • 2nd Edition - June 24, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Helen Forbes, Elizabeth Watt
  • Language: English

Jarvis’s Physical Examination and Health Assessment Pocket Companion is the perfect clinical placement guide and bedside resource. Written by Helen Forbes and Elizabeth Watts,… Read more

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Jarvis’s Physical Examination and Health Assessment Pocket Companion is the perfect clinical placement guide and bedside resource. Written by Helen Forbes and Elizabeth Watts, this must-have text provides the essential steps for health assessment in an user-friendly, pocket size format.

This updated second edition highlights the contrast between normal and abnormal findings, focusing on symptom, risk and function.

Key features

  • Interviewing, health history taking and assessment techniques clearly outlined
  • Cultural and social considerations and Developmental considerations indicated throughout
  • Over 150 full-colour illustrations and photos demonstrating anatomy, physiology and examination techniques
  • Summary checklists

Table of contents

Chapter 1 - Getting started with health assessmentChapter 2 - The health assessment interview and the health historyChapter 3 - Physical assessment techniquesChapter 4 - General survey, measurement, vital signsChapter 5 - Mental health assessmentChapter 6 - Neurological functionChapter 7 - Pain assessmentChapter 8 - Eye functionChapter 9 - Ear functionChapter 10 - Peripheral vascular assessmentChapter 11 - Cardiac functionChapter 12 - Upper airwaysChapter 13 - Lower airwaysChapter 14 - Musculoskeletal functionChapter 15 - Nutritional and metabolic functionChapter 16 - Skin, hair and nailsChapter 17 - Abdominal assessmentChapter 18 - Urinary functionChapter 19 - Bowel functionChapter 20 - Female sexual and reproductive functionChapter 21 - Male sexual and reproductive functionChapter 22 - Breast assessment

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 24, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

HF

Helen Forbes

Affiliations and expertise
Nurse Consultant (Education), Formerly Associate Professor and Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning), School of Nursing & Midwifery, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

EW

Elizabeth Watt

Affiliations and expertise
Nurse Consultant (Education), Senior Research Fellow, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia