Engage and empower your students in the health assessment process

Lippincott® Nursing Health Assessment learning tools help prepare students for a safe, competent transition to nursing practice by emphasizing the clinical judgment and decision-making skills essential for effective patient evaluation. A thorough health assessment is the foundation of the nursing process, allowing clinicians to gather critical subjective and objective data to inform accurate diagnoses.

Our solutions are designed to build student confidence and competence by integrating evidence-based practices into every topic, ensuring alignment with today's healthcare standards. Through interactive case studies and real-world scenarios, learners master how to apply theoretical knowledge in dynamic clinical settings, sharpening the critical thinking needed for safe and effective patient care.

These tools bridge the gap between classroom learning and bedside application, empowering students to deliver high-quality, individualized care from the very start of their careers.

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Health Assessment in Nursing, 8th Edition

Health Assessment in Nursing, 8th Edition

Jane R. Weber, RN, EdD
2025

Weber’s Health Assessment in Nursing, 8th Edition, blends evidence-based practices with tools to teach assessment skills. New updates emphasize inclusivity, preparing students for safe, inclusive patient care.

  • NEW! Hair, Skin, and Nails Atlas, now available in Lippincott® CoursePoint+, enhances inclusive care skills with clinically accurate visuals of conditions across various skin tones.
  • NEW! Video on transgender client history-taking empowers students with affirming communication techniques and health screening insights to provide respectful care.
  • NEW! Inclusive language equips students with culturally responsive communication tools to care for diverse client populations.
  • UPDATED! Threaded case studies show the full assessment process, from interviews to SBAR communication, focusing on accurate documentation techniques across clinical systems.
  • UPDATED! Collecting Objective Data: Physical Examination Guidance features up-to-date guidance paired with Abnormal Findings boxes, helping students identify, document, and respond to diverse patient assessments.
  • Unfolding Patient Stories mirror vSim® for Nursing, reinforcing understanding and smoothing the transition from classroom to simulation.
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Review Preface and Sample Chapter
Cover image: Nursing Health Assessment, Clinical Judgement Approach, 4/e, Jensen

Nursing Health Assessment, 4th Edition

Sharon Jensen, DNP, MN, RN, and Debra Servello, DNP, APRN- ACNP-BC

Equip students with the necessary clinical judgment skills for effective nursing health assessment. This extensively revised and updated text combines fundamental knowledge and a progressive, student-friendly presentation of unfolding case-studies in each chapter showing how the nurse intervenes as the patient situation changes using a clinical judgment approach. Designed for today's culturally diverse and gender inclusive healthcare environment, Jensen's new edition will prepare students to excel on the Next Generation NCLEX®) and confidently transition to nursing practice.

  • 180 case-based Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) style questions (and answers with rationales for both right and wrong answers) boost students’ exam readiness and test-taking confidence.
  • NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM) components incorporated into progressive case studies throughout the text strengthen students’ critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
  • New and revised content familiarizes students with social determinants of health, incorporates unbiased language, and reflects current infection and source control measures.
  • Diagnoses incorporate International Classification for Nursing Practice [ICNP] language to clarify challenging terminology.
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Review Preface and Sample Chapter
Cover image: Bates' Nursing Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 3/e, Hogan-Quigley

Bates’ Nursing Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 3rd Edition

Beth Hogan-Quigley, MSN, RN, CRNP, and Mary Louise Palm, MS, RN

The proven authority in patient assessment for more than 45 years with instructional techniques and vibrant visuals of Bates’ gold-standard assessment text specifically for the needs of today’s nursing students. Thoroughly updated, evidence-based coverage emphasizes the healthy patient and clearly details common findings and diseases to help students develop and practice key skills in physical examination, assessment, and history taking.

  • Revised content familiarizes students with the latest evidence-based research and emerging clinical concerns, including vaping, the opioid crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Full-color images clarify key concepts and techniques in vivid detail.
  • An enhanced design emphasizes key content and helps students learn more efficiently.
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Review Preface and Sample Chapter

Lippincott® CoursePoint+ for Health Assessment

Lippincott CoursePoint+ is the leading digital curriculum learning solution for nursing education, featuring an interactive eBook, adaptive learning, virtual simulations, and a trusted clinical decision support tool widely adopted by nurse employers. For educators, it offers flexible implementation and detailed reporting to personalize instruction and support student success.

Feature highlights

  • Interactive eBook provides students with anytime, anywhere access to their title, along with tools to take notes and highlight text, and a read-aloud feature for added convenience.
  • NEW! One-Minute Nurse videos simplify complex nursing concepts into quick, digestible videos to enhance understanding and retention.
  • Lippincott® Advisor offers students access to a point-of-care decision tool commonly used in real-world nursing practice.
  • vSim® for Nursing builds students’ confidence and sharpens clinical judgment through realistic virtual simulations.

Boost learning by providing practice opportunities

Enhance your course by incorporating these learning tools and manage your course easily, all in one platform with single sign-on. Talk to your sales representative about enhancements including LMS integration.

Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment

Encourage thoughtful practice in patient care. Build a clinical judgment mindset across the curriculum with cognitive practice in hundreds of realistic and complex patient scenarios across 17 areas in an unfolding EHR introducing students to the realities of decision making about patient care.
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Lippincott® DocuCare

Lippincott® DocuCare gives students hands-on experience with realistic charting and workflows modeled after leading EHR systems. With 400 customizable patient records, robust clinical decision support, and clinically realistic simulation updates, all in a user-friendly course management platform. Students build clinical judgment along with charting and communication skills that today’s healthcare employers expect and patients need.
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vSim® for Nursing*

Deliver the most realistic and up-to-date experience available with expert-authored virtual simulations co-developed by Laerdal Medical and scenarios written by National League for Nursing. vSim® for Nursing provides real-world, evidence-based scenarios with built-in point-of-care solutions for reference and remediation to hone students’ clinical judgment, competence, and confidence. *Included in CoursePoint+
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vrClinicals for Nursing

Enhance clinical decision-making skills with virtual experiences that immerse students in realistic, multi-patient care scenarios in a safe setting that prepares them for the demands of practice.
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