Assess Notes

Assess Notes

Author: Marjory Gordon

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2008-01-16

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0803620713

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This handy guide uses functional health patterns to help your students acquire the most relevant assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses, and to select the most appropriate nursing interventions—emphasizing the essential connection between diagnostic judgment and therapeutic judgment.


Physical Assessment Check-Off Notes

Physical Assessment Check-Off Notes

Author: Brenda Walter Holloway

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0803640447

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Reduce your anxieties and build the knowledge base and experience you need to pass the check-off exam. Based upon actual “check-off” forms that faculty commonly use for grading, this unique guide gives you instant access to the information necessary for conducting and documenting a routine adult well-patient physical assessment. Full-color illustrations detail every assessment technique.


PT Clinical Notes

PT Clinical Notes

Author: Ellen Z. Hillegass

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0803641060

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Rely on this well-organized, concise pocket guide to prepare for the everyday encounters you’ll face in the hospital, rehab facility, nursing home, or home health setting. Quickly access just what you need in any setting with succinct, yet comprehensive guidance on every page.


Diagnostic Reasoning

Diagnostic Reasoning

Author: Jean M. Nagelkerk

Publisher: Saunders

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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This new manual offers readers valuable practice in analyzing data and making effective clinical decisions. First, a section on Clinical Data explores the decision-making process, the health history, the physical examination, diagnostic tests, and herbal therapies. Next, abundant case studies cover a variety of disorders in every body system. A final section on Documentation as a Communication Tool explains how to document care successfully.


Massage Notes

Massage Notes

Author: Ginger Castle

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0803640595

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Identifying the information essential to creating an effective client-specific treatment plan has never been easier. This handy resource focuses on assessment as an indispensable tool for massage therapists. With a clear-and-concise writing style, it presents the signs and symptoms associated with the conditions you are most likely to encounter in practice in one easy-to-use reference. Step by step, the author guides you from assessment to treatment, while emphasizing that the role of the massage therapist is not to diagnose a client. Illustrations of the major muscles, trigger points, and pain referral patterns, and charts of common signs and symptoms along with suggested assessments clarify complex concepts.


Assessing for Learning

Assessing for Learning

Author: Violet H. Harada

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1598844717

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In this book, theory is blended with practical application to provide a concise, up-to-date explanation of how school librarians can work with students and teachers to assess for learning in 21st century schools. Coauthors Harada and Yoshina authored the first text that focused on learning assessment in a school library context. In this revised and expanded version of Assessing for Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners, they continue to shed light on the issue of school librarians helping students to assess for learning. The book begins with a brief discussion of national reform efforts and the importance of assessment for effective learning within this context. The balance of the book provides numerous strategies and tools for involving students as well as library media specialists in assessment activities, emphasizing the importance of students assessing for their own learning. It also provides specific examples of how assessment can be incorporated into various library-related learning activities. All chapters in this second edition have been updated with additional information, and three new chapters on assessing for critical thinking, dispositions, and tech-related learning have been added.


Health Assessment

Health Assessment

Author: Anna T. Crouch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1119185718

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Health assessment is central to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. All nurses are accountable for the care they provide and need to be able to accurately determine patient needs in order to plan and deliver evidence-based care. Vital notes for nurses: Health assessment provides students with the knowledge required to consider the many different factors which can influence patient’s health, comfort, well-being and recovery and to confidently assess patient needs. Vital notes for nurses: Health assessment explores concepts of holism, health and illness, factors to consider when assessing patients, communication skills needed for assessment, and all aspects of holistic assessment including physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors and nutritional needs. * Provides a concise, accessible introduction to health assessment * Includes physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual health assessment * Explores essential concepts in assessment and care planning * Within the Vital Notes for Nurses series * Adopts a holistic approach