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May 10, 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: - Students will be able to describe appropriate assessment and interviewing techniques to gather information in the lab setting.
- Students will be able to describe the role of the nurse in using the comprehensive health assessment.
- Students will be able to identify common variations in assessment data for pediatric and geriatric clients.
- Students will be able to identify interventions appropriate to promoting health and quality of life across the lifespan in various health care settings.
- Students will be able to identify interview and assessment techniques used to collect and organize client information and build a data base on which to build nursing care decisions.
- Students will be able to identify physical, psychological, and sociocultural considerations that influence alterations in health and physical assessment data across the lifespan.
- Students will be able to use critical thinking skills to relate selected data to common normal variances and pathologies in adult clients.
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