Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning

4th Edition - Featuring Kognito Simulations

By: Jacqueline Rhoads, Sandra Wiggins Petersen

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Paperback | 13 January 2020 | Edition Number 4

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484 Pages

Edition Type
Revised

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29 x 22.5 x 2.5

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Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning, Fourth Edition covers the diagnostic reasoning process that providers must follow when assessing an actual case. The Fourth Edition outlines each step of the health assessment process and further demonstrates the link between health history and physical examination. It also provides the healthcare professional with the essential data needed to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan.

Features and Benefits

Three introductory chapters cover general strategies for health history taking, physical examination, and documentation, and the remaining chapters cover clinical aspects of assessment, and focus on various systemic disorders
New chapters on spiritual, cultural, and nutritional assessment
Updated chapters on female genitourinary and breast disorders and musculoskeletal disorders
Patient health history and physical examination are presented are presented in two columns. The first column gives the action, and the second column lists normal and abnormal findings, and possible diagnoses associated with those findings.
Every clinical chapter contains a differential diagnosis of common disorders as well as a section on the assessment of special populations
Instructor Resources include: Videos, links to audio clips, interactive lectures, Instructor Resource Guide, competency mapping, a syllabus, assessments, PowerPoint slides
Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Premier Access that unlocks a robust online course complete with interactive lectures, eBook with health assessment videos and audio clips, syllabus, instructor resource guide, image bank, practice activities, discussion questions, and testing items.

About the Authors

Jacqueline Rhoads, PhD, APRN-BC, PMHNP-BE, FAANP is Professor at University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing. She has earned her PhD from the University of Texas in Austin Texas; post-Master’s degrees in Acute Care NP, Community Health Primary Care Adult NP, Gerontology NP, and Psych Mental Health NP.

Sandra Petersen is an Associate Professor in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Texas at Tyler, Texas and maintains a private practice, seeing patients in the Dallas and Houston areas. She was formerly the Program Track Administrator for the Masters in Nursing Leadership Program at UTMB Galveston. She earned her Bachelor's degree in business and biology from East Texas Baptist University and also received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA.

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