This portable, pocket-sized companion to the 3rd edition of the Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment provides on-the-spot access to the how-to's of taking a health history, conducting a physical exam, and charting the results. This handy reference tool features an attractive, four colour design, and includes special material on paediatric, pregnant, and aging populations along with valuable transcultural information. This pocketbook organizes each exam step by body system and each body system chapter by anatomy structure and function, subjective data, objective data, nursing diagnoses, and abnormal findings. It explains the method of examination in the objective data section of each chapter with full colour exam photographs accompanying the step-by-step instructions, and helps the reader spot patient problems with listings of normal and abnormal findings in a two-column format that makes them easy to compare.