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Sep 25, 2024
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NRSE 2231 - Health Assessment
Focuses on the theory and application experience for performing nursing assessment of individuals across the life span. Emphasis is placed on interviewing and physical assessment techniques and documentation of findings appropriate for nursing. The emphasis is on well clients, with the identification and prioritization of some deviations from normal upon which to base nursing diagnosis.
Requisites: NRSE 1111 and BSN major
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 3.0 clinical
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Describe appropriate assessment and interviewing techniques to gather information in the lab setting.
- Describe the role of the nurse in using the comprehensive health assessment.
- Identify common variations in assessment data for pediatric and geriatric clients.
- Identify interventions appropriate to promoting health and quality of life across the lifespan in various health care settings.
- Identify interview and assessment techniques used to collect and organize client information and build a data base on which to build nursing care decisions.
- Identify physical, psychological, and sociocultural considerations that influence alterations in health and physical assessment data across the lifespan.
- Use critical thinking skills to relate selected data to common normal variances and pathologies in adult clients.
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