Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 6th Edition

I have used many editions of this book, I think I started out with 2nd edition, because I taught Physical/Health Assessment for many years. When I first started teaching it 2 or 3 semesters a year I had the opportunity to review many and this was always my favorite- especially when you started offering the online materials. Even if everything did not apply (I taught at ASN, BSN levels and had my nurse practitioner students use it for their basic review text. However many texts were available for review from 1990 to 2008, I reviewed them. In 2013 I simply went to Amazon and asked for Jarvis's newest book available on this topicWhen I review a text for course use I pick out the chapters of things I know very well and read them word by word, then peruse the other chapters, though after teaching 29 years I am quite familiar. I was also a Family Nurse Practitioner.Students did not complain about readability and pictures and so on, just how big the assignments were. The whole book is way to much for one course (that's why NP students need a good book for review). And I was pleased with the pain assessment chapter and especially slides. As much as it "pains" me to see in research literature, medical and nursing students are woefully undereducated on pain management' I have stayed somewhat current in pain management by belonging to the American Society for Pain Management Nursing ( and a few other groups like the American Pain Society). A close friend with similar nursing background decided in 1980 to select the most serious problem of our whole profession. We chose undertreatment of pain. We have slowed down somewhat . We plan to continue until we develop dementia or die.I will stop now, As a mostly retired nurse the chance to talk to nursing colleagues is not too common except in the every three month ASPMN meeting. If you are interested we have a website, the St. Louis Chapter of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing. To it's credit the national group has gone from 19 members in the late 1990's to at least five thousand, despite many hurdles posed by the DEAI retired early to take care of two seriously ill parents but I still teach an occasional Health/PE class at local junior college Although there are not a lot of changes in the actual human body I do love the updates on tips and techniques. Your book was very easy for me to do a self-review. It is so good for all the areas I fought for many years ago, evidenced-based assessment and critical thinking.Sorry, I am writing this very late, I think I reversed a paragraph and I do not know how to correct it in this format.Sincerely,Cathy Flasar MSN, APRN

Information presented in the textbook is not much different from the 5th edition, sold the 6th edition and kept my 5th edition, a book that I used when I was an undergrad student.

Got it used. The binding and cover was a little messed up. But overall good.

Very nice thank you

I absolutely love this book. This is one of my most prized nursing books. I wish I had this in first assessment. It's subjective and objective portions are absolute gold, it really makes you think about how the pt may describe what they are feeling, as well as some helpful tips on how to dig deeper. It covers newborns, Peds, teens, adults. Geriatric and how assessments would vary in each by system.

I bought this book as a requirement for my nursing class. I also bought the pocket guide. In all reality I used the pocket guide more than this text. It was wordy, confusing and in the end didn't have all the assessment data I needed, which the pocket guide did have. Would be great for someone who is a big learner from reading text books.

good price

I purchased this book to for a nursing health assessment class. Spring 2015. The good....the book is basically brand new, there are no highlights and the price was reasonable. The seller also sent the book in a timely manner so I had it just in time for school. The best thing about the text is all of the pictures. The pictures are phenomenal, for essentially every disorder you have a visual reference of some sort.So....I'm not a huge fan of this book . I hate how the information is organized within the text. You have the subjective data and what the examiner asks and on the right side squeezed in a vertical column you have the rationale and then you have the objective data with the normal range of findings and then on the right squeezed in a vertical column you have the abnormal findings. There is a lot of information squeezed in each chapter, and the way that the information is presented, you can miss something. There have been times, where I have missed important terminology because the vocabulary word was at the crease of the page in a slender column. Also, sometimes, I find it difficult to locate information in this book; the index does not list everything! In addition to that, this book does not have a glossary. I just wish the information was presented in a better way, I hate having to look at columns.Now the one thing that I can say about the text, is that it is easy to read.The book is not a difficult read it is just so much information clumped together. I just wish the information was presented in a more organized manner.