Health assessment in nursing / Janet Weber and Jane Kelley

Includes index.

Unit I. Conceptual overview of nursing health assessment. Nurse's role in health assessment: collecting and analyzing data -- The client in context: culture, spirituality, family, and community -- Unit II. Nursing data collection, documentation, and analysis. Collecting subjective data -- Collecting objective data -- Validating and documenting data -- Using diagnostic reasoning skills to analyze data -- Unit III. Nursing assessment of the adult. General survey, mental status exam, and vital signs -- Pain assessment -- Nutritional assessment -- Spiritual assessment -- Skin, hair, and nail assessment -- Head and neck assessment -- Eye assessment -- Ear assessment -- Mouth, throat, nose, and sinus assessment. Thoracic and lung assessment -- Breast and lymphatic assessment -- Heart and neck vessel assessment -- Peripheral vascular assessment -- Abdominal assessment -- Female genitalia assessment -- Male genitalia assessment -- Anus, rectum, and prostate assessment -- Musculoskeletal assessment -- Neurologic assessment -- Pulling it all together -- Unit IV. Nursing assessment of special groups. Assessment of the childbearing woman -- Assessment of newborns and infants -- Assessment of children and adolescents -- Assessment of the frail elderly client -- Assessment of the family -- Assessment of families using violence -- Community assessment --

Contains chapters on pain assessment, nutritional assessment, spiritual assessment, and assessment of families using violence. This title is useful both for the student and the instructor.