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Physical Examination and Health Assessment - Canadian
- 2nd Edition
- Author: Carolyn Jarvis
- Editors: Annette J. Browne, June MacDonald-Jenkins, Marian Luctkar-Flude
- Language: English
With an easy-to-read approach and unmatched learning support, Physical Examination & Health Assessment, Second Edition offers a clear, logical, and holistic approach to physic… Read more
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With an easy-to-read approach and unmatched learning support, Physical Examination & Health Assessment, Second Edition offers a clear, logical, and holistic approach to physical exam across the lifespan. Detailed illustrations, summary checklists, and new learning resources ensure that you learn all the skills you need to know. This gold standard in physical exam reflects what is going on in nursing today with coverage of emerging trends and new evidence-based content. It's easy to see why this text is, far and away, #1 in this market!
- Reading Level: 12.0
- A clear, conversational writing style makes learning easier.
- A two-column format distinguishes normal findings from abnormal findings, and uses color, step-by-step photos to clarify examination techniques and expected findings.
- Over 1,100 full-colour illustrations present anatomy and physiology, examination techniques, and abnormal findings.
- Developmental considerations help in caring for patients across the lifespan with age-specific assessment techniques for infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women, and older adults.
- Abnormal findings tables include over 300 pathology photos to help in recognizing, sorting, and describing abnormalities.
- New Special Considerations for Advanced Assessment sections (selected chapters) outline advanced examination techniques and considerations
- New Critical Findings boxes (selected chapters) identify noteworthy findings during an examination and outline associated nursing actions
- Promoting Health boxes enable patient teaching and health promotion while performing the health assessment.
- An emphasis on cultural competencies reflects today’s care considerations for an increasingly diverse patient population.
- Documentation examples show how to record assessment findings in the patient’s chart, using the SOAP format.
- Summary checklists provide a quick review of examination steps.
- A companion Evolve website helps you review key content offering case studies with critical thinking questions, printable health promotion handouts, a head-to-toe examination video, heart and lung sounds, audio chapter summaries, and more.
UNIT 1: ASSESSMENT OF THE WHOLE PERSON
Chapter 1: Critical Thinking and Evidence-Informed Assessment
Chapter 2: Health Promotion in the Context of Health Assessment NEW!
Chapter 3: Cultural Competence: Cultural Care
Chapter 4: The Interview
Chapter 5: The Complete Health History
Chapter 6: Mental Health Assessment
Chapter 7: Substance Use in the Context of Health Assessment NEW!
Chapter 8: Interpersonal Violence Assessment
UNIT 2: APPROACH TO THE CLINICAL SETTING
Chapter 9: Assessment Techniques and the Clinical Setting
Chapter 10: General Survey, Measurement, and Vital Signs
Chapter 11: Pain Assessment
Chapter 12: Nutritional Assessment and Nursing Practice
UNIT 3: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
Chapter 13: Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 14: Head and Neck, Including Regional Lymphatic System
Chapter 15: Eyes
Chapter 16: Ears
Chapter 17: Nose, Mouth, and Throat
Chapter 18: Breasts and Regional Lymphatic System
Chapter 19: Thorax and Lungs
Chapter 20: Heart and Neck Vessels
Chapter 21: Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System
Chapter 22: Abdomen
Chapter 23: Anus, Rectum, and Prostate
Chapter 24: Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 25: Neurological System
Chapter 26: Male Genitourinary System
Chapter 27: Female Genitourinary System
UNIT 4: INTEGRATION OF THE HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Chapter 28: The Complete Health Assessment: Putting It All Together
Chapter 29: Bedside Assessment of the Hospitalized Patient
Chapter 30: Pregnancy
Chapter 31: Functional Assessment of the Older Adult
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published:
- Imprint: Saunders Canada
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Annette J. Browne
Dr. Annette J., Browne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Building on her experience as a nurse who lived and worked within First Nations and Inuit communities, Annette’s research has generated a body of evidence aimed at improving healthcare and health outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples affected by health and social inequities. Working in partnership with communities, health and policy leaders, and clinicians, recent studies have focused on: the impact of organizational interventions to improve health equity in primary health care; health promoting interventions with Indigenous women experiencing violence, and; strategies to improve equity-oriented care in emergency departments.
Annette is a member of the EQUIP Health Care research team, and Critical Research in Health and Healthcare Inequities team leader.
Annette is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
She has taught advanced health assessment to nurse practitioners and post-RNs for many years, and is the Canadian co-editor of Jarvis’s Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Canadian Edition.
Annette is a settler of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and ally.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Distinguished University Scholar ,Associate Director, Graduate Programs School of Nursing University of British Columbia Vancouver, BCJM
June MacDonald-Jenkins
June MacDonald-Jenkins, BN, BScN, MSc
Affiliations and expertise
Sr. Dean Faculty of Social and Community Services
Principal, Lakeshore Campus
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, OntarioML
Marian Luctkar-Flude
Dr. Marian Luctkar-Flude received her BScN and MScN from the University of Ottawa, her critical care nursing diploma from St. Lawrence College (Kingston), and her PhD from Queen’s University (Kingston). She has over 20 years' medical–surgical nursing experience, over 20 years' experience as an educator, and was named the 2021 Reznick Scholar at Queen’s University, which honours outstanding leadership and longstanding commitment to educational scholarship. She is now an Associate Professor at Queen's University School of Nursing where she has taught Nursing Health Assessment, Nursing Research, Medical-Surgical Nursing and Project in Evidence-Based Practice courses. She has expertise in clinical simulation and curriculum development and is Co-President of the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-sim), which serves as a platform for simulation collaboration among health educators. Her educational research interests include use of simulation in undergraduate nursing education, interprofessional education, and virtual simulation games, and her clinical research interests include breast cancer survivorship care, neurofeedback for post-cancer cognitive impairment, and knowledge translation interventions for primary care providers and cancer survivors. Dr. Luktcar-Flude is also an editor for Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Canadian Edition
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor,Reznick Scholar, Health Professions Education,Faculty of Health Sciences,Queen's University School of Nursing Kingston, OntarioCJ
Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Jarvis, PhD, APRN, CNP
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Illinois Wesleyan University; Certified Nurse Practitioner (retired), Bloomington, Illinois