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Title: Health assessment
Author/Creator: Slater, Lynne
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Description: Assessing a client's health status is a major component of nursing care. Assessment is an ongoing process that ensures nurses note baseline information and constantly review and reassess the client's health. Besides vital signs which are used to continuously assess a client's ongoing health and wellbeing, there are other important aspects of assessment. These include: (1) the nursing health history discussed in Chapter II. and (2) the physical examination discussed in this chapter.
Relation: Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing p. 607-697
Relation: http://www.pearson.com.au/9781442518490
Date: 2010
Publisher: Pearson Australia
Keyword(s): nursing care; client assessment; physical examination; nursing health history
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932738
Identifier: ISBN:9781442504707

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