Ideal as a practical, portable clinical reference tool, this Canadian pocket companion summarizes essential assessment skills with colour pathology photos and illustrations, examination steps for each body system, normal versus abnormal findings, lifespan and cultural considerations, nursing diagnoses and summary checklists.

Carolyn Jarvis, PhD, APRN, CNP

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Dr. Annette J., Browne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Building on her experience as a nurse who lived and worked within First Nations and Inuit communities, Annette’s research has generated a body of evidence aimed at improving healthcare and health outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples affected by health and social inequities. Working in partnership with communities, health and policy leaders, and clinicians, recent studies have focused on: the impact of organizational interventions to improve health equity in primary health care; health promoting interventions with Indigenous women experiencing violence, and; strategies to improve equity-oriented care in emergency departments.

Annette is a member of the EQUIP Health Care research team, and Critical Research in Health and Healthcare Inequities team leader.

Annette is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

She has taught advanced health assessment to nurse practitioners and post-RNs for many years, and is the Canadian co-editor of Jarvis’s Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Canadian Edition.

Annette is a settler of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and ally.

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June MacDonald-Jenkins, RN, BScN, MSc

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Dr. Marian Luctkar-Flude received her BScN and MScN from the University of Ottawa, her critical care nursing diploma from St. Lawrence College (Kingston), and her PhD from Queen’s University (Kingston). She has over 20 years' medical–surgical nursing experience, over 20 years' experience as an educator, and was named the 2021 Reznick Scholar at Queen’s University, which honours outstanding leadership and longstanding commitment to educational scholarship. She is now an Associate Professor at Queen's University School of Nursing where she has taught Nursing Health Assessment, Nursing Research, Medical-Surgical Nursing and Project in Evidence-Based Practice courses. She has expertise in clinical simulation and curriculum development and is Co-President of the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-sim), which serves as a platform for simulation collaboration among health educators. Her educational research interests include use of simulation in undergraduate nursing education, interprofessional education, and virtual simulation games, and her clinical research interests include breast cancer survivorship care, neurofeedback for post-cancer cognitive impairment, and knowledge translation interventions for primary care providers and cancer survivors. Dr. Luktcar-Flude is also an editor for Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Canadian Edition

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