Product Description: This textbook, on the foundations to the classical theory of the functions of complex variable, begins at a basic level and explains the theory as rigorously as can be obtained in a short course. It offers motivation for classical results in complex analysis and shows the reader the power of certain techniques...read more

Product Description: Many texts address the physical examination component of health assessment, but do not cover the diagnostic reasoning process that a health care provider must go through when assessing an actual case. In the Second Edition of Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning, author Jacqueline Rhoad does just that...read more

Product Description: As the care of patients with cancer has shifted from the inpatient arena to the outpatient setting, the traditional role of the nurse has been challenged. Nurses both in outpatient clinics and physicians' offices have frequently found themselves performing assessments and providing triage and advice over the telephone...read more

Product Description: Telephone Triage Protocols for Nurses, fifth Edition   Performing telephone triage requires the ability to make quick and effective decisions based on limited information. Telephone Triage Protocols for Nurses, 5th Edition is your rapid-access resource, delivering more than 200 triage protocols for evaluating patients' symptoms over the telephone...read more

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is an essential pocket guide for nurses coping with patients with acute medical conditions. It focuses on events within the first critical twenty-four hours of admission and provides an up-to-date, evidence-based guide to the management of these patients. The most common emergency medical conditions are described and explained in terms of the underlying disease mechanisms. The book also describes the assessment, observations and management in relation to disease processes and in line with the latest guidelines and protocols. Nursing care is related to the underlying disease.

Product Description: This is a student supplement associated with:   Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing, 2/e Donita D'Amico Colleen Barbarito ISBN: 0135114152

Product Description: Thoroughly updated and now in full color, the Sixth Edition of this comprehensive manual covers over 550 signs and symptoms. More than 300 of the most important signs and symptoms are organized alphabetically; each entry includes a description, emergency interventions (where appropriate), history and physical examination, causes, associated signs and symptoms, special considerations, pediatric pointers, geriatric pointers, and patient counseling...read more

Product Description: Renowned for its holistic perspective and "see and do" approach, this full-color, pocket-sized handbook offers step-by-step guidance on every phase of the nursing assessment—for adults, children, and special populations. The focus is on what nurses need to know to assess clients: the health history, physical examination, normal and abnormal findings, nursing interventions, and nursing diagnoses...read more

Product Description: The role and function of the nurse is rapidly changing, and nurses are now required to undertake a comprehensive clinical examination of patients, a responsibility traditionally undertaken by a doctor. Clinical Examination Skills is an accessible, introductory guide to helping nurses fulfil this role, enabling them to understand the core skills and knowledge needed to assess patients competently...read more

Product Description: Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings...read more

Focuses on nursing care and collaborative management for a patient who presents with an acute disorder that affects more than one body system. This discusses coexisting disorders that complicate treatment options. It presents information including causes, risk factors, pathophysiologic effects by body system, and assessment findings.

Now in full color, this handbook provides quick access to all parts of the nursing health history and physical examination. A holistic nursing focus is given in addition to a step-by-step explanation for performing each part of the examination. In addition it guides the nurse to analyze the data collected to formulate nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems. The Fifth Edition features a CD-ROM with a free PDA download that contains assessment tools for special populations and special considerations. This edition also includes new NANDA Nursing Diagnoses, updated teaching tips, and full color photos and tables.

Product Description: The combination Laboratory Manual and Study Guide is intended to reinforce the content from the main text, as well as prepare the student for the skills laboratory/ clinical experience. Each chapter begins with an overview, reading assignment and list of key vocabulary terms to prepare the student for the review exercises...read more

Product Description: Thoroughly reviewed and updated for the Fourth Edition, this comprehensive manual covers more than 550 signs and symptoms. More than 300 of the most important signs and symptoms are organized alphabetically; each entry includes an introduction with the definition, description, incidence, significance, and summary of causes; emergency interventions (where appropriate); history and physical examination; medical causes; other causes, such as drugs, herbal medicines, procedures and treatments; special considerations, including complications, comfort measures, and tests; pediatric pointers; geriatric pointers; and patient counseling...read more

Product Description: Completely updated for its Third Edition, this book presents assessment skills in the Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to interview patients, obtain complete health histories, perform physical examinations, and interpret findings...read more

Product Description: This unique 2-in-1 reference presents vital information on signs and symptoms in two practical, helpful ways on every page. The wide inner column of each page contains detailed narrative text on the sign or symptom, emergency interventions, history, physical assessment, medical and other causes, patient counseling, and pediatric and geriatric pointers...read more

Product Description: This unique 2-in-1 reference presents vital information on history taking, physical examination, and interpretation of findings in two practical, helpful ways on every page. The wide inner column contains detailed narrative text; the narrow outer column contains brief bulleted summaries of the same information...read more

Product Description: POCKET GUIDE TO CRITICAL CARE ASSESSMENT is the only reference on the market to focus on assessment of critically ill patients. This portable, assessment tool is designed for the nurse who needs quick access to pertinent information at the bedside...read more

Product Description: This textbook, on the foundations to the classical theory of the functions of complex variable, begins at a basic level and explains the theory as rigorously as can be obtained in a short course. It offers motivation for classical results in complex analysis and shows the reader the power of certain techniques...read more