Physical Examination and Health Assessment: Canadian Edition

Reinforce your understanding of essential examination and assessment skills! As both a comprehensive lab manual and a practical workbook the Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 3^rd Canadian Edition provides you with activities and resources to enhance hands-on learning. It features reading assignments corresponding to the text, terminology reviews, application activities, review questions, clinical learning objectives, regional write-up sheets, and narrative summary forms. In addition, this new version includes content on the Electronic Health Record to help you document your findings along with evidence-informed practice materials to further improve upon skills.

• Anatomy labelling exercises reinforces the identification of key anatomy and physiology.
• Reading assignments correspond to the text chapters to foster integration of the text and laboratory manual.
• A glossary promotes learning and understanding of essential terminology.
• Study guide activities reinforce the learning of key assessment information.
• Review questions-short answer, matching, multiple choice-provide learning activities in a variety of approaches.
• Clinical-learning objectives focus your study efforts on outcomes.
• Audio-visual assignments tie the visual video demonstrations of specific examination procedures to practical applications in the skills lab.
• Regional Write-up Sheets allow you to assess knowledge with forms used in the skills lab or clinical setting.
• Narrative Summary Forms reflect charting format used for narrative accounts of the history and physical examination findings.

• NEW! Coverage of the Electronic Health Record, charting, and narrative recording gives you examples of how to document assessment findings.

Carolyn Jarvis, PhD, APRN, CNP