Health assessment and physical examination : Australian & New Zealand edition / Mary Ellen Zator Estes, Pauline Calleja, Karen Theobald, Theresa Harvey.

"Mary Ellen Zator Estes, Pauline Calleja, Karen Theobald, Theresa Harvey."

This book published in 2012 with a copyright date of 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health Assessment and Physical Examination; Copyright page; Brief contents; Contents; Preface to this edition; Acknowledgments; About the authors; Resource guide; Unit 1: // Laying the foundation; Chapter 1: Critical thinking and the nursing process; Background; Critical thinking and clinical reasoning; Universal Intellectual Standards for critical thinking; Components of critical thinking and clinical reasoning; Critical thinking and the nursing process; Assessment; Health history; Planning; Implementation; Physical assessment findings; Diagnostic and laboratory data; Evaluation.

Putting it all togetherPrioritisation; Evidence-based practice; Clinical (or critical) pathways; Chapter 2: The patient interview and developmental considerations; Background; The patient interview; The nurse; The patient; Factors influencing the interview; Factors affecting communication; Stages of the interview process; Effective interviewing techniques; Using open-ended questions; Using closed questions; Facilitating; Using silence; Grouping communication techniques; Interviewing techniques to avoid; Requesting an explanation; Probing; Offering false reassurance.

Giving approval or disapprovalDefending; Advising; Questioning techniques which may be problematic; Interviewing the patient with special needs; The patient with impaired hearing; The patient with impaired vision; The patient with impaired speech or aphasia; The patient who is culturally or linguistically diverse; The patient who has a low level of understanding; The patient who is emotional; Behaviour that may be sexually aggressive or threatening; The patient who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs; Developmental theories; Ages and stages developmental theories.

Developmental stages, tasks, and life eventsDevelopmental tasks of infants (birth to 1 year); Developmental tasks of toddlers (1 to 3 years); Developmental tasks of preschoolers (3 to 6 years); Developmental tasks of school-age children (6 to 12 years); Developmental tasks of adolescents (12 to 18 years); Developmental tasks of young adults (18 to 30 years); Developmental tasks of early middle adulthood (30 to 50 years); Developmental tasks of late middle adulthood (50 to 70 years); Developmental tasks of late adulthood (70 years to death); Developmental assessment tools; Assessment.

BackgroundChapter 3: The complete health history including documentation; Types of health history; Preparing for the health history; General approach to the health history; Identifying information; Today's date; Demographic data; The complete health history assessment tool; Source and reliability of information; Patient profile; Reason for seeking health care and chief complaint; Present health and history of the present illness; Past health history; Family health history; Social history; Health maintenance/promotion activities; Review of systems; Concluding the health history.

This first Australia and New Zealand edition of the comprehensive Estes '! Health Assessment and Physical Examination is designed to teach students to assess a patient '! physical, psychological, cultural and emotional dimensions of health as a foundation of nursing care. The skills of interviewing, inspection, percussion, palpation, auscultation, and documentation are defined to help students to make clinical assessments and promote healthy patient outcomes. A strong emphasis on science encompasses all the technical aspects of anatomy, physiology and assessment, while highlighting clinically.