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A DAVIS NOTES BOOK!
This handy, pocket-sized guide by Marjory Gordon uses functional health patterns to help your students acquire the most relevant assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses, and to select the most appropriate nursing interventions—emphasizing the essential connection between diagnostic judgment and therapeutic judgment.

• Offers a brief overview of assessment and functional health patterns.
• Emphasizes how to conduct a nursingfocused, holistic assessment and the pertinent findings from the physical examination supporting patient complaints.  
• Contains a specific tab for each Functional Health Pattern.
• Each pattern tab progresses from the importance of the pattern to individual, family, and community assessments, and includes...
• a section on why that pattern is important
• pertinent history questions to ask to elicit relevant data.
• prioritized list of dysfunctional patterns that includes NANDA definitions with defining characteristics and related statements, NIC and NOC.
• Delivers all of the features that Davis’s Notes users rely on...concise, wellorganized, easy-to-reference content, easy-to-use spiral binding, and waterproof pages on which to record data and then wipe clean with alcohol.

Tab 1 Assessment and the Functional Health Patterns
Tab 2 The Nursing History and Physical Examination: Collection and Interpretation of Information
Tab 3 Health Perception-Health Management Pattern
Tab 4 Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
Tab 5 Elimination Pattern
Tab 6 Activity-Exercise Pattern
Tab 7 Sleep-Rest Pattern
Tab 8 Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
Tab 9 Why this Pattern is Important Individual Assessment
Tab 10 Role-Relationship Pattern
Tab 11 Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern
Tab 12 Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
Tab 13 Value-Belief Pattern
Tab 14 Assessment Data to Nursing Diagnosis
Tab 15 Tools