"Health Assessment" is compiled according to the requirements of "Outline of Nurse Practice and Nurse Qualification Examination". The main contents include: health history collection, physical assessment, symptom assessment, psychological assessment, social assessment, behavior assessment, electrocardiogram examination, laboratory examination, imaging examination, nursing diagnosis and thinking methods and health assessment records. Health assessment is rich in content, easy to understand and readable.
"Health assessment" is a new and interdisciplinary applied discipline with rich theoretical knowledge and strong clinical practice, involving medicine, psychology, sociology and behavior. Health assessment is the main course of nursing specialty. With the comprehensive development of holistic nursing and community nursing, the demand for nurses' health assessment knowledge and skills is increasingly prominent. Health assessment plays an increasingly important role in cultivating the comprehensive quality and ability of nursing students, and its position is irreplaceable.
Health assessment is a bridge course between basic nursing course and clinical nursing discipline, and it is also an important course for nursing specialty. The guiding ideology of this textbook is to closely focus on the training objectives of nursing specialty in secondary vocational education, adhere to the principle of service, take post demand as the guide, take vocational skills training as the foundation, and meet post needs, teaching needs and social needs.