Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning 2nd Edition

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I bought this book for a Nurse Practitioner course. There are many positives about this book, but a couple of negatives come to mind and I'll mention them, too. On the positive side, detailed health history recommendations and their rationale are included for each chapter along with a chapter focused review of systems in detail. However, I wish that there were more pictures of normal findings. It's nice to know what abnormal findings look like, but first, I need to know what characterizes a normal exam. For instance, in my many years of hospital nursing I have never done an otoscopic ear exam. This book provides a great image of a TM with bulging membrane related to acute OM. There is a picture on the next page showing a perforated TM. Great, but what does a normal TM actually look like? A sketched TM image showing the cone of light and the umbo, among other findings, is not nearly as useful as an image designating those same landmarks. This book's focus is on the adult and only cursory mention is made of pediatric and geriatric variations. They could have either skipped these two sub areas or else included a useful amount of information on the pediatric and geriatric exams. Another negative is that our instructor told us, after class members all bought this book, that she didn't like it and prefers the Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, which is now in it's 11th edition. Interestingly, the Bates' book is highlighted on Amazon as the #1 Best Seller in Nursing Diagnosis. I wish we could have used that book for our class.

It is an excellent book. Sometimes lacking detail but well explained and easy to read!

This book has been horrible for my NP assessment course this semester!! The online access code had absolutely no resources, the videos are already public on youtube and appear to be out of the 80s with conflicting information that is in the book. The case studies available with the code are a joke, they do not give you any feedbacks or answers whatsoever, it only tells you to discuss your answers with your instructor to receive feedback. The anatomy pictures do not even have specific locations present that are included in the physical assessment portions. So basically its a ton of extra time spent having to look up each specific thing online on your own anyways. I had to look up every single test and area for the musculoskeletal and neuro portions outside of this book; the cranial nerve section was lacking detailed, important information. IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM IS THIS BOOK ANYWHERE NEAR AN ADVANCED LEVEL.

Concise yet detailed, easy read. I'm enjoying this informative text thus far in my advanced health assessment studies as a Nurse Practitioner.

Excellent textbook and well written in a comprehensive format

Illustrated and presented well. Book in great condition.

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