Health Assessment ((2 Units))

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Admission to the Applied Science in Nursing Program. This course provides the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform a basic comprehensive health assessment utilizing the skills of history taking, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Normal assessment findings, frequently seen variations from normal and cultural differences are discussed.  This course uses the core organizing concepts within the QSEN framework. A concept-based curriculum with selected nursing concepts will be followed.