"The down-to-earth nursing reference that makes health assessment incredibly visual! This fully illustrated, easy-to-update-to guide for assessment that every nursing student and novice needs."--Back cover.

"Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, ninth edition, is a concise, portable text, with new chapters that expand its scope to include all aspects of clinical skills training and education"--

"In this easy-to-follow, how-to-do-it atlas, internationally recognized pain expert Dr. Steven D. Waldman provides a compendium of practical physical examination techniques that you can use in your daily practice to evaluate and diagnose patients in pain. Physical Diagnosis of Pain, 5th Edition, is the only atlas devoted to this critical area of pain medicine, offering a real-world focus on how clinicians evaluate pain: "What is it?" rather than "Where...