Patient Teaching: Reference Manual - Couverture souple

Springhouse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1582551405 ISBN 13 : 9781582551401

Editeur : Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

This manual for nurses and other health care professionals provides current patient-teaching materials on over 500 topics. Organized alphabetically by disorders within body systems, the book features over 600 illustrations, key teaching points and commonly asked questions for each disorder, abundant references, a handy list of resources for patients and caregivers, and a cross-referenced index. Contents cover planning, evaluation, and documentation, and what to teach about body system disorders. Format includes causes, complications, diagnostic work-up, and treatments. This user-friendly, comprehensive collection features large print, simple language, and clear, concise explanations. Complementing the manual, the CD-ROM offers easy-to-understand fully illustrated teaching aids to print and distribute to patients and caregivers. Some teaching aids also available in Spanish.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fourth Edition" is the only book-and-audio-CD product on the market that offers full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex and provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document. This product offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen. The book is supplemented with an all-in-one CD that feature 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, which can be listened to sequentially with the book or reviewed by the reader in the order of her choosing. The CD can be listened to in the car or on the computer; it can be downloaded to the computer and converted to MP3 files. Tips and alerts abound throughout the book's text to help manage optimal care. A glossary of commonly used terms and abbreviations and an easy-to-read chart of common disorders matched with their specific abnormal breath and heart sounds add to the book's utility.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1582551405
• ISBN 13: 9781582551401
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 1024
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible