This book features: concise clinical facts you need to know for daily practice; essential information on head-to-toe assessment - in full color; easy-to-use alphabetical organization; assessment and causes for common signs and symptoms; special indicators for life-threatening signs and symptoms and causes; emergency interventions where applicable; and hundreds of illustrations, photos, and charts.
This portable reference for nurses describes common signs and symptoms, how to assess them, their various causes, and emergency interventions, as well as information on assessing body systems. They are listed alphabetically and accompanied by illustrations. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Portable Signs & Symptoms is a compact powerhouse of clinical information on signs, symptoms, and assessment techniques. Our nurse-experts have sorted through the mass of clinical information and focused in on what nurses need most in daily practice. This need-to-know information is presented in an easy-to-use, concise format for time-starved nurses, with bullets, lists, and hundreds of illustrations, charts, diagrams, and photographs.
A full-color assessment section offers step-by-step details on essential nursing assessment techniques. The second section presents descriptions and causes for hundreds of signs and symptoms. Banner headlines indicate life-threatening signs and symptoms, and text boxes highlight emergency interventions.
The brand-new Portable reference series, an extension of our popular Portable RN and Portable LPN titles, offers compact powerhouses of clinical information on core nursing topics. Our nurse-experts have sorted through the mass of relevant clinical information on each topic and focused in on the information that nurses need most in their daily practice. Each book presents practical, need-to-know information in an easy-to-use, concise format - an invaluable feature for today's time-starved nurses. Bullets, lists, charts, diagrams, and illustrations allow for quick retrieval and understanding. Synthesizing related, essential clinical information on need-to-know nursing topics, the books in the Portable series are like having an expert consultant right in your pocket. With its unique approach to signs and symptoms, Portable Signs and Symptoms offers nurses not only descriptions, causes, and emergency interventions (where applicable) for hundreds of signs and symptoms but also step-by-step details of the essential nursing assessment techniques commonly found only in nursing assessment texts.
