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Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach

Ancillary Assets: Help your students develop the assessment knowledge and skills they need for effective practice with Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach, 2e. This proven book emphasizes health promotion, risk factor reduction, evidence-based thinking, and diagnostic reasoning. Your students will learn strategies for adapting questions and techniques when communication is challenging, the patient's responses are unexpected, or the patient's condition changes over time. Unique features assist with application, analysis, and critical thinking skill development to better prepare your students for practice. Normal and abnormal findings are presented in side-by-side columns and thorough and comprehensive examinations are included for each specific topic. Additional features, a robust ancillary program, and book-related media build on the in-text cases to reinforce correct elements of subjective and objective data collection and variations necessary for different problems, age groups, and cultures. Student Ancillaries ·Learning Objectives for each chapter provide an outline of key content that must be mastered. ·Journal Articles for every chapter, updated for this edition, offer access to current research available in LWW journals. ·NCLEX-Style Chapter Review Questions help students master content and prepare for the NCLEX. ·Concepts in Action Animations bring concepts to life and enhance student comprehension. ·Watch & Learn Video Clips reinforce skills from the textbook and appeal to visual and auditory learners. ·Practice & Learn Activities present case scenarios with interactive exercises and questions to help students apply what they have learned. ·Clinical Simulation Case Studies help students prepare for clinical practice. ·A Spanish-English Audio Glossary provides terms and phrases for communicating with patients in Spanish. ·Monographs of Commonly Prescribed Drugs provide vital, up-to-date information. ·Video Clip Credit List provides information on the source of each video clip. ·Nursing Roles/Responsibilities PDF provides an overview of key roles and responsibilities. ·Answers to Review Questions and Case Study Opening and Closing Questions allow students to gauge their understanding. ·A Nursing Health Assessment Q&A App that provides additional practice is available as a free download. ·eBook on thePoint provides fully searchable anytime, anywhere access to the complete text online. Instructor Ancillaries ·A complete image bank enhances lecture and exam preparation. ·PowerPoint presentations make it easy for you to integrate the textbook with your students’ classroom experience, via either handouts or slide shows. ·Learning Objectives for every chapter help students gauge their mastery of key content. ·Guided Lecture Notes walk you through the chapters, objective by objective, and provide corresponding PowerPoint numbers. ·Pre-Lecture Quizzes (and answers) are quick, knowledge-based assessments that allow you to check students’ reading. ·Discussion Topics (and suggested answers) can be used as a conversation starter or in online discussion boards. ·Assignments (and suggested answers) include group, written, clinical, and online assignments. ·Case Studies (with related questions and suggested answers) give your students an opportunity to apply their knowledge to a client case similar to what they will encounter in practice. ·Journal Articles by chapter , updated for this edition, offer access to research available in LWW journals. ·NCLEX-Style Chapter Review Questions help students master content and prepare for the NCLEX. ·Concepts in Action Animations bring concepts to life and enhance student comprehension. ·Watch & Learn Video Clips reinforce skills from the textbook and appeal to visual and auditory learners. ·Practice & Learn Activities present case scenarios with interactive exercises and questions to help students apply what they have learned. ·Syllabi provide guidance for structuring your course. ·Strategies for Effective Teaching provide tips for teaching the course. ·QSEN Competency KSAs Mapped to Jensen highlight where QSEN competencies are covered in the text. ·A Spanish-English Audio Glossary provides terms and phrases for communicating with patients in Spanish. ·Monographs of Commonly Prescribed Drugs provide vital, up-to-date information. ·Video Clip Credit List provides information on the source of each video clip. ·Nursing Roles/Responsibilities PDF provides an overview of key roles and responsibilities. ·Answers to Review Questions and Case Study Opening and Closing Questions allow students to gauge their understanding. ·Test Generator Questions for Macintosh and Windows systems help you put together tests that assess your students’ understanding of the material. ·Angel, Blackboard, and WebCT-ready materials make the book easy to use with your learning management system of choice. ·A free Nursing Health Assessment Q&A App that reviews key information is available as a free download. ·eBook on thePoint provides fully searchable anytime, anywhere access to the complete text online. 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Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach