"The 2 CDs include 87 tracks with 136 heart, lung, bowel, and vascular sounds recorded from actual patients--there are no computer-generated sounds!"

Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS


Unit I. Getting started
Health assessment and the nurse ; Health history ; Approach to the physical assessment
Unit 2. Promoting health
Teaching the client ; Assessing wellness ; Assessing nutrition ; Spiritual assessment Unit III. Systems physical assessment
Assessing the integumentary system ; Assessing the head, face, and neck ; Assessing the eye and ear ; Assessing the respiratory system ; Assessing the cardiovascular system ; Assessing the peripheral-vascular and lymphatic systems ; Assessing the breasts ; Assessing the abdomen ; Assessing the female genitourinary system ; Assessing the male genitourinary (GU) system ; Assessing the motor-musculoskeletal system ; Assessing the sensory-neurological system ; Putting it all together
Unit IV. Adapting assessment to special populations
Assessing the mother-to-be ; Assessing the newborn and infant ; Assessing the toddler and preschooler ; Assessing the school-age child and adolescent ; Assessing the older adult

Students can listen to the auscultatory sounds of heart, breath and the bowel and practice their assessment skills using the case studies with the accompanying 2 CD set: Health assessment developing your auscultation skills CD-ROM

The Instructor's resource disc contains Instructor's guide with outlines, teaching strategies, student assignments, etc., PowerPoint presentation of 300 slides covering all of health assessment, Electronic test bank and test constructor containing more than 800 multiple choice questions and answers, and Image bank of electronic files of every illustration used in the text

System requirements: Acrobat Reader 5.0 (included on the CD-ROM)