Nurses' handbook of health assessment / [edited by] Janet Weber.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 440-442) and index.

Contents
1. The nursing health history.
Definition and purpose ;
Nursing model versus medical model ;
Guidelines for obtaining a nursing health history
2. Components of the nursing health history.
Client profile ;
Developmental history ;
Health perception-health management pattern ;
Nutritional-metabolic pattern ;
Elimination pattern ;
Activity-exercise pattern ;
Sexuality-reproduction pattern ;
Sleep-rest pattern ;
Sensory-perceptual pattern ;
Cognitive pattern ;
Role-relationship pattern ;
Self-perception-Self-concept pattern ;
Coping-stress tolerance pattern ;
Value-belief pattern
3. Physical assessment
4. General physical survey
5. Skin, hair, and nail assessment
6. Head, neck, and cervical lymph node assessment
7. Mouth, oropharynx, nose, and sinus assessment
8. Eye assessment
9. Ear assessment
10. Thoracic and lung assessment
11. Cardiac assessment
12. Peripheral vascular assessment
13. Breast assessment
14. Abdominal assessment
15. Genitourinary-reproductive assessment.
Assessment of inguinal area ;
Assessment of external rectal area ;
Assessment of female genitalia ;
Assessment of male genitalia
16. Musculoskeletal. (cont) assessment
17. Neurological assessment. Mental status assessment ;
Cranial nerve assessment ;
Sensory nerve assessment ;
Motor assessment ;
Cerebellar assement ;
Reflex assessment
18. Maternal physical assessment.
Prenatal maternal assessment ;
Prenatal fetal assessment ;
Intrapartal maternal assessment ;
Postpartal maternal assessment
19. Nutritional Assessment