Now in its Fourth Edition, Health Assessment in Nursing is a colorful, user-friendly introductory level health assessment text for RN-level students. Targeted to ADN and BSN programs, this text presumes no prior knowledge of health assessment and is part of a suite that includes Lab Manual to Accompany Health Assessment in Nursing, Nurses' Handbook of Health Assessment, and Weber & Kelley's Interactive Nursing Assessment. For this edition, the COLDSPA mnemonic, which guides students through investigation of symptoms, has been revised to show specific applications to content in each chapter. A sample application of COLDSPA is presented at the beginning of each chapter's Nursing History section, and another accompanies each case study. The Frail Elderly chapter has been streamlined, with a stronger focus on the normal variations associated with assessment of elderly clients. Includes DVD-ROM.

Explains the process of holistic assessment in nursing, covering physical assessment skills, clinical examination techniques, and patient teaching guidelines, and includes nursing tips, case studies, review questions, and references.

Undergraduate nursing in physical and health assessment, the text begins with introductory concepts, such as overall health assessment, conducting a health interview and health history, as well as documentation. The second half is organized by body systems, and each chapter reviews anatomy and physiology, teaches students how to conduct an interview, and walks students through the examination for that body system. With our three step approach, we will help students prepare for success. *Learn the techniques*Demonstrate your skills*Practice and test yourself This is a program that combines the text and media in order to create an integrated teaching and learning system. Media is a driving force in this course, possibly more than any other nursing course. With our program, the difference is, the media is chapter specific.

Health Assessment Online for Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 4th edition, is a cutting-edge collection of supplemental online teaching/learning materials for faculty and students in health assessment or physical exam courses. This library of more than 4,000 electronic assets provides a wealth of online resources to draw from in teaching this highly visual topic in conjunction with Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health Assessment. Online resources are organized by textbook chapter and within each chapter is a listing of assets by type, including thousands of ready-to-use animations, audio clips, glossary terms, images, interactive exercises, lab and diagnostic tests, PowerPoint slides, practice tests, test bank questions, video clips, and WebLinks.