Health Assessment: Lifespan & Community

Catalog description

Using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches within a transpersonal caring framework, students develop skills in performing health assessment of well individuals across the lifespan from infancy to older adulthood, with emphasis on healthy aging. Community characteristics will be explored and strategies developed to promote health of the community. The course introduces students to interviewing techniques, health history, physical assessment techniques, and documentation of findings. Pre-requisite(s): Admission into the Accelerated BSN track. Co-requisite(s): NURS 304 , NURS 324, NURS 355, NURS 360 .