Overview
Description
Foundations of health assessment which includes gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, communicating and documenting data to make nursing clinical judgments.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to the nursing major.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing major.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Restrictions
Admission to the nursing major.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recognize assessment techniques that collect objective and subjective data pertinent to the individual’s health or situation.
- evaluate clinical situations and patient conditions to choose the correct type of assessment and select prioritized assessment techniques.
- interpret patterns found in data collection and assessment findings to inform care and evaluate patient outcomes.
- describe how therapeutic communication establishes and maintains the nurse-client relationship.
- identify how health care information technologies are used in health assessment.
- use appropriate medical terminology to describe assessment findings in communicating with the interprofessional healthcare team.