About This Book

This textbook was created for the NURSI 1140: Physical Assessment course at the College of DuPage with funding from the OER Faculty Support Grant program.

Copyright © Barbara Gawron and Meenu James 2024. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) License, except where otherwise noted.

Content for this textbook was adapted from the following open educational resources:

Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care by Glynda Rees Doyle and Jodie Anita McCutcheon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The Complete Subjective Health Assessment by Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, Paul Petrie, Sherry Morrell, and Sita Mistry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Diversity in Nursing Education: A basic tool kit by Dr. Rachel Winston, Dr. LaKeva Harris, Dr. Lisa Harrington, Vickie Green, and Dr. Will Brewer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Evidence-Based Practice is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Health Assessment Guide for Nurses by Ching-Chuen Feng, Michelle Agostini, and Raquel Bertiz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Introduction to Communication in Nursing edited by Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, and Joy Garmaise-Yee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Introduction to Health Assessment for the Nursing Professional (2024) by Dr. Jennifer L. Lapum and Michelle Hughes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Nursing Fundamentals 2e by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Therapeutic relationships in the 21st century by McClaren, C., Romaniuk, D., McGovern, B., Kamstra-Cooper, K., Connell, M., Akerman, E., & Petrie. P. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) by Darla Benton Kearney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.