Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care.
Joyce E. Dains. Mosby Elsevier. 2007.
Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning. Jacqueline Rhoads. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2006.
Advanced Health Assessment of Women: Clinical Skills and Procedures.
Helen A. Carcio. Lippincott. 1999.
Assessing Older Persons: Measures, Meaning, and Practical Applications.
Robert L. Kane and Rosalie A. Kane. 2000.
Assessing Patients. Springhouse. 1996.
Assessing the Elderly. Geri Richards Hall, Martha L. Henderson,
and Marianne Smith. Lippincott, 2001.
Assessment and Care of Patients: Your Guide to JCAHO Compliance.
Jan Allison. Opus Communications. 2002.
Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! 3rd edition. Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins. 2005.
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. 9th ed. Edited by Lynn S.
Bickley. Lippincott. 2007.
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. McGraw-Hill. 2000.
Cox's Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis : Adult, Child, Women's, Mental Health, Gerontic, and Home Health Considerations. Susan A. Newfield, et al. F.A. Davis Company. 2007.
Critical Care Assessment Handbook. Sharron E. Murray and Barbara S.
White. W.B. Saunders. 1999.
Evaluation of the Patient with Heart Disease: Integrating the Physical
Exam & Echocardiography. Edited by Carlos A. Roldan and Jonathan
Abrams. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2002.
Expert 10-Minute Physical Examinations. Mosby. 1997.
Handbook of Geriatric Assessment. Joseph Gallo. Aspen. 2000.
Health and Physical Assessment. Violet Barkauskas, Linda Ciofu
Baumann, Cynthia S. Arling-Fisher. Mosby. 2002.
Health Assessment: A Nursing Approach. Lippincott. 2000.
Health Assessment & Physical Examination. Mary Ellen Zator Estes.
Third edition. Thomson Delmar Learning. 2006.
Health Assessment for Nursing Practice. Susan F. Wilson and Jean
Foret Giddens. Mosby. 2001.
Health Assessment in Nursing. Janet Weber and Jane Kelley. Second
edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2003.
Health Assessment Through the Life Span. Mildred O. Hogstel
and Linda Cox Curry. 4th edition. F. A. Davis. 2005.
Instant Nursing Assessment : Cardiovascular. Theresa Korolishin.
Delmar Publishers. 1996.
Medical Assessment Units: the Initial Management of Acute Medical Patients.
Edited by Ian Wood and Michelle Rhodes. Whurr Publishers. 2003.
Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination. 6th ed. Henry M. Seidel, et al. Mosby. 2006.
Nurses' Handbook of Health Assessment. Janet R. Weber. Lippincott.
2001.
Nursing Procedures & Protocols. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
2003.
Physical Examination and Health Assessment. Carolyn Jarvis. W.B.
Saunders. 2000.
A Practical Guide to Health Assessment. Marilyn Shelley Leasia
and Frances Donovan Monahan. Saunders. 2002.
Professional Guide to Assessment. Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins. 2006.
SPM Handbook of Health Assessment Tools. Society of Prospective
Medicine. Institute for Health and Productivity Management. 1999.
Skillmasters: 3-Minute Assessment. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
2003.
Videos
Assessing The Adult: Head To Toe. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse,
PA: Springhouse Corporation, 1995. 55 minutes.
Synopsis: "Teaches a fully integrated, head-to-toe
assessment that incorporates dermatologic, neurologic, and immunologic
components in a regionalized approach." Useful tips on how to avoid
false assessment findings, as well as how to correctly interpret normal
findings that may vary according to race; anatomical landmarks and provides
helpful documentation hints.
Assessment Of Patients And Care Of Patients: Key Issues And Topics.
[1 video with guide]. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations, 1996. 90 minutes. (1996 Joint Commission
Videoconference Series).
Note: 6/11/96 presentation.
Synopsis: Describes the requirements of the Patient Assessment and Care
of Patients standards as related to a number of new or problematic areas;
identifies key characteristics of successful compliance strategies within
these functional areas; identifies the ways these functional areas are
evaluated during a Joint Commission survey.
Assessment Of The Older Adult. [2 videos]. Baltimore, MD: Williams
and Wilkins, 1996. 45 minutes. With: Charlotte Eliopoulos.
Synopsis: Program 1 provides an overview of the factors
that influence general data collection, and client interviews. Discusses
methods for evaluating mental status, explores the primary information
that should be collected for complete psychosocial and health history
and examines how to access a person's home environment and daily living
activities. Program 2 offers a practical demonstration on how to physically
assess the older adult.
Cardiac System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse
Corporation, 1992. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation
techniques. Also includes clinically simulated heart sounds.
Gastrointestinal System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA:
Springhouse Corporation, 1992. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: Questions to ask to obtain an accurate and
thorough gastrointestinal health history from your patient.
Geriatric Symptom Assessment And Management. [4 videos with guides].
St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1998. 128 minutes each. With: Kathleen Fletcher.
Contents: Part 1) Symptom Assessment Framework; Part
2) Cardiopulmonary; Part 3) Gastrointestinal; Part 4) Neuromuscular
and Urinary.
Synopsis: Demonstrates the difference between normal aging and signs
and symptoms that are indicative of a disease process; examines the
pathophysiology and etiology of common symptoms/signs in the older adult.
Measuring Vital Signs: Temperature, Pulse, Respiration and Blood Pressure.
[1 video]. Cypress, CA: Medcom Inc., 1999. 27 minutes. (New Nursing
Assistant 2000 series)
Synopsis: This program covers reading a thermometer,
measuring an oral temperature, measuring a rectal temperature, measuring
axillary temperature, using an electronic thermometer, other methods
of measuring temperature, measuring radial pulse, respirations and blood
pressure.
Musculoskeletal System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA:
Springhouse Corporation, 1993. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: Questions to ask to obtain an accurate and
thorough musculoskeletal health history from your patient.
Neonatal Physical Assessment. [3 videos with guides]. St. Louis,
MO: Mosby, 1997. 48 minutes.
Contents: Part 1) Gestational age and growth evaluation;
Part 2) Respiratory and cardiovascular assessment; Part 3) Neurologic,
gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and skin assessment.
Synopsis: Demonstrates how to perform a systematic neonatal physical
assessment and evaluate the newborn's developmental status; reviews
common causes for abnormal growth patterns.
Nervous System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse
Corporation, 1992. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: How to perform a neurologic assessment accurately
and completely--what to assess for, how to assess for it, and why. Also
includes animated graphics of the nervous system.
Nursing Assessment. [1 video]. Virginia Beach, VA: Coastal Healthcare,
1992. 15 minutes.
Note: Useful for new personnel orientation or for an
in-service refresher.
Synopsis: Understanding patient assessment; physical assessment overview;
observation, interview, and examination; patient profile and health
history; functional health patterns; practical step-by-step procedure
for securing the data that's vitally important to insuring quality patient
care.
Nursing Assessment Of The Patient With Pain. [1 video with guide].
Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1992. 30 minutes. (McCaffery on
Pain).With Margo McCaffery, RN.
Synopsis: Recognizes two misconceptions that frequently
hamper a professional's assessment of pain in adult and elderly patients;
identifies two indications that a patient may be denying pain; identifies
two specific methods for assessing a patient's level of pain.
Performing Cardiac Assessment. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse,
PA: Springhouse Corp, 2000. 30 minutes. (Expert Nurse Video series)
Synopsis: Discusses techniques for identifying normal
and abnormal heart sounds; provides electronically generated sounds
to help you identify and understand normal and abnormal heart sounds;
examines how to document location, intensity, duration, pitch, timing
and quality of heart sounds.
Performing Head-to-Toe Assessment. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse,
PA: Springhouse Corp, 2000. 60 minutes. (Expert Nurse Video series)
Synopsis: Discusses how to skillfully and systematically
assess the head, neck, thorax, breasts, abdomen, arms, legs, genitalia,
and rectum; demonstrates step-by-step proper inspection, palpation,
percussion, and auscultation techniques; provides clear explanations
of the how's and why's of head-to-toe assessment.
Performing Respiratory Assessment. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse,
PA: Springhouse Corp, 2000. 30 minutes. (Expert Nurse Video series)
Synopsis: Discusses how to identify normal and abnormal
breath sounds; examines how to properly auscultate a patient's lungs
to detect even subtle changes in breath sounds; discusses how to accurately
locate respiratory landmarks and how to document your assessment findings.
Practical Skills In Physical Assessment. [1 video]. Baltimore,
MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1996. 18 minutes. [VC 1484]
Synopsis: Offers an organized, systems style approach
for completing a routine physical evaluation. Includes discussion of
cultural and ethnic perspectives of medical exams and health care.
Reproductive And Urinary System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse,
PA: Springhouse Corporation, 1993. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: Questions to ask to obtain an accurate and
thorough reproductive and urinary health history from your patient.
Respiratory System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse
Corporation, 1992. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: How to perform a respiratory assessment accurately
and completely. Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation
techniques. Also includes clinically simulated breath sounds.
Taking A Health History. [1 video]. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1994.
18 minutes.
Synopsis: Demonstrates the process of interviewing the
patient to obtain the health history and current health information.
Vascular System. [1 video with guide]. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse
Corporation, 1992. 30 minutes. (Assessment Review series).
Synopsis: How to perform a vascular assessment accurately
and completely. What to assess for, how to assess for it, and why. Also
includes animated graphics of the vascular system.
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