The premier book of its kind, Health Assessment & Physical Examination, third edition, is designed to teach you to assess a patient?s physical, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health as a foundation to nursing care. The skills of interviewing, documentation, inspection, percussion, palpation, and auscultation are refined to teach you to make effective clinical judgments that promote healthy positive outcomes.

Mary Ellen Zator Estes, RN, MSN, FNP, APRN-BC, NP-C Family Nurse Practitioner in Internal Medicine, Fairfax, Virginia Clinical Faculty, Nurse Practitioner Track, School of Nursing, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

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