Health assessment for nursing practice / Susan Fickertt Wilson, Jean Foret Giddens.

includes bibliographical reference and index.

"Health Assessment for Nursing Practice is based on the assumption that every patient --from neonate to older adult--is an interactive, complex being who is more than a collection of his or her parts. Each patient's health status depends on the interactions of physiologic, psychologic, sociocultural, and spiritual factors. This book demonstrates caring and compassion when the faculty interacts with patients to act as role models for students. This book also helps students become knowledgeable and skilled in history-taking and physical assessment as well as teaching them how to be objective and nonjudgmental"--