Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy, 5e presents nursing assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. With an appealing 4-color interior and light-hearted humor throughout, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master assessment techniques and remember key information. The Practice Makes Perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX -style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website offers ancillary materials, including an image bank, printable study cards, and numerous games newly added for this 5th edition.

Part I: Beginning the assessment 1. Health history 2. Fundamental physical assessment techniques 3. Nutritional assessment 4. Mental health assessment Part II: Assessing body systems 5. Skin, hair, and nails 6. Neurologic system 7. Eyes 8. Ears, nose, and throat  9. Cardiovascular system 10. Respiratory system 11. Breasts and axillae 12. Gastrointestinal system 13. Female genitourinary system 14. Male genitourinary system 15. Musculoskeletal system Appendices Practice makes perfect (Posttest) Glossary Selected references Credits