NUR 2015 - Health Assessment and Foundations of Safe, Person-Centered Nursing Care (ASD)

• Demonstrate therapeutic communication skills, empathy, and cultural sensitivity, while being attentive to privacy and confidentiality when collecting assessment data from clients (Communication, Person-Centered Care)
• Conduct a thorough and accurate physical examination of the client using clinical judgment and practice (Person-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment)
• Use best evidence to discuss variations in comprehensive and focused health assessment techniques based on clients age and/or unique needs (Person-Centered Care, Evidence Based Practice)
• Distinguish between expected and unexpected assessment findings obtained from health history, physical examination, laboratory test values, and/or diagnostic tests (Clinical Judgment)
• Demonstrate accurate use of health information systems to summarize and document health assessment findings (Healthcare Technologies, Communication)
• Collaborate with patient and interdisciplinary team (Collaboration)
• Demonstrate the clinical and medication administration skills needed to practice safe, high quality nursing care (Person-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment)
• Demonstrate patient education principles to promote and maintain health and prevent illness (Collaboration, Evidence-Based Practice)
• Use the nursing process, critical thinking, and the client’s input to develop a logical plan of care that incorporates and advocates for care priorities and reflects the client’s values, needs, and preferences (Person-Centered Care, Clinical Judgment)
• Reflect on one’s personal values and biases as part of developing a deeper insight into the core values of nursing; exhibit behaviors that align with those of an ethical, responsible professional and a leader of character (Professional Role)

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• Introduction to health assessment
• Introduction to focused assessments
• Introduction to the nursing process
• Introduction to lab values and diagnostics
• Vital signs
• Health history and physical exam
• Framework for data collection (Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns)
  • Health perception and management pattern and assessment
  • Nutrition and metabolic pattern and assessment
  • Activity and exercise pattern and assessment
  • Cognitive and perceptual pattern and assessment
  • Elimination pattern and assessment
  • Sexuality and reproduction pattern and assessment
  • Sleep and rest pattern and assessment
  • Role and relationship pattern and assessment
  • Coping and stress pattern and assessment
  • Values and beliefs pattern and assessment
  • Self-perception and self-concept pattern and assessment
• Therapeutic communication and relationships
• Health promotion
• Patient education
• Documentation
• Health behavior model 
• Assessment of the infant
• Assessment of the child and adolescent
• Assessment of the older adult
• Professional practice issues: foundation for communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution
• Professional practice issues: foundation for client rights and ethical issues
• Growth and development: the experience of aging
• Readiness for enhanced knowledge; deficient knowledge
• Impaired swallowing, risk for aspiration
• Impaired oral mucous membranes
• Risk for infection transmission, chain of infection
• Impaired physical mobility; impaired ambulation, risk for falls
• Risk for impaired skin integrity/pressure ulcers
• Risk for injury, client safety initiatives; prevention

• Health assessment
• Personal hygiene, oral care, bed making, toileting
• Nutrition, feeding, aspiration prevention
• Safe patient handling
• Electronic health record
• Safety: fire safety and restraint use
• Activities of daily living
• Isolation principles and personal protective equipment
• Hazards of immobility: fall and pressure ulcer prevention Post-mortem care
• Isolation principles and PPE
• Safe medication administration (Part I)
  • Oral medications
  • Topical medications
  • Glucose management lab
  • Parenteral medications (IM, SC, intradermal, rectal/vaginal, ear, eyes)