Health Assessment

Catalog description

This course addresses the concepts, knowledge, and skills necessary to complete and interpret a holistic health assessment and physical examination for patients across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on the major elements, sequence, and methodology for health assessments and health promotion and disease prevention strategies. Students obtain health histories, perform physicals and psychosocial assessment, and formulate initial nursing plans using the nursing process. This course will prepare the student to identify issues related to marginalized communities with attention to the intersections of race, ethnicity, sexuality, socio-economic position, gender age, trauma, and ability.