Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis, Pat Thomas (Illustrator), Pat Thomas (Illustrator), Kevin Strandberg (Photographer), Kevin Strandberg (Photographer)

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  • 288pp
  • Sales Rank: 3,163

Textbook Information

  • ISBN-13: 9781416038542
  • Edition Description: New Edition
  • Edition Number: 5
  • Pub. Date: November 2007
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

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  • Pub. Date: November 2007
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 288pp
  • Sales Rank: 3,163

Synopsis

Find the answers you need-any time!

Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment is a favorite source for portable assessment guidance. This totally updated Third Edition offers you state-of-the-art basic assessment information…in a new, full-color format that helps you find the knowledge you need even faster!

Concise discussions guide you through anatomical structure and function, subjective data, objective data, and abnormal findings for a full range of examination types. Full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to perform each examination. And, normal and abnormal findings appear in a two-column format that makes problems easy to spot. You'll also find the developmental and transcultural knowledge you need to effectively assess patients of all ages and backgrounds.

Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Third Edition is such a valuable assessment tool that you'll want to carry it with you everywhere you go!

About the Author
Carolyn Jarvis received her BSNN cum laude from the University of Iowa and her MSN from Loyola University (Chicago). She has taught physical assessment and critical care nursing at Rush University (Chicago), University of Missouri (Columbia), and University of Illinois (Urbana), and she has taught physical assessment, pharmacology, and pathophysiology at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.

Ms. Jarvis is a recipient of the University of Missouri's Superior Teaching Award and has taught physical assessment to hundreds of baccalaureate students and nursing professional, has held 150 continuing education seminars, and is the author of numerous articles and textbook contributions.

Ms. Jarvis has maintained a clinical practice in advanced practice roles-first as a cardiovascular clinical specialist in various critical care settings and, for the last 20 years, as a certified family nurse practitioner in primary care.

She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois in Chicago, with a research interest in the physiologic effect of alcohol on the cardiovascular system.

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