Prentice Hall Real Nursing Skills: Physical and Health Assessment (Physical & Health Assessment)

Pearson Education; Pearson Education, . .

ISBN 10: 0131915258 ISBN 13: 9780131915251

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

For Fundamentals of Nusing and Health Assessment Courses.

Prentice Hall's Real Nursing Skills series offers students the complete foundation for competency in performing clinical nursing skills. The volumes in this series consist of CD-ROMs with comprehensive procedures and rationales demonstrated in hundreds of realistic video clips, animations, illustrations, and photographs. For each technique, students will review: Interview * Preparation and Equipment * Technique * Expected Findings * Unexpected Findings * Considerations * and Variation (if applicable). This is the only skills series designed to help students visualize how to perform clinical nursing assessment techniques and to understand the concepts and rationales for each. Throughout the videos, students will experience the real-life aspects of: therapeutic communication between the nurse and the client, the client's reaction to techiques, and cultural, gender, and age diversity among nurses and clients.

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