Assess Notes Nursing Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning

Offers a brief overview of assessment and functional health patterns. Emphasizes how to conduct a nursingfocused, holistic assessment and the pertinent findings from the physical examination supporting patient complaints. Contains a specific tab for each Functional Health Pattern. Each pattern tab progresses from the importance of the pattern to individual, family, and community assessments, and includes... a section on why that pattern is important pertinent history questions to ask to elicit relevant data. prioritized list of dysfunctional patterns that includes NANDA definitions with defining characteristics and related statements, NIC and NOC. Delivers all of the features that Davis's Notes users rely on...concise, wellorganized, easy-to-reference content, easy-to-use spiral binding, and waterproof pages on which to record data and then wipe clean with alcohol.