Pocket Guide to Gerontologic Assessment (Pocket Guides)

The third edition of POCKET GUIDE TO GERONTOLOGIC NURSING is designed to serve as a practical reference for nurses assessing the health status of older adults in a variety of traditional and nontraditional settings. This book guides the nurse in the performance of a basic, comprehensive health assessment that covers all body systems. Well-organized, it provides a quick, ready reference when conducting either a focused assessment related to a specific body system or a complete health assessment. New to this edition is a chapter on nutritional assessment, a section identifying drugs that may influence assessment of the older client, sample documentation boxes at the end of each body system chapter that show how to record the collected subjective and objective data in an organized format, and a section on foot assessment. A new appendix includes a sample write-up of a complete history and physical examination.