NUR 2010 - Health Assessment

• Conduct a thorough and accurate physical examination of the client using appropriately selected biomedical technology (Person-Centered Care; Informatics and Healthcare Technologies)
• Discuss variations in comprehensive and focused health assessment techniques based on clients age and/or unique needs (Person-Centered Care)
• Discuss factors that promote health and explain how healthy lifestyles can help maintain health and prevent illness (Person-Centered Care)
• Distinguish between expected and unexpected assessment findings obtained from health history, physical examination, laboratory test values, and/or diagnostic tests (Clinical Judgment)
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, empathy, and cultural sensitivity, while being attentive to privacy and confidentiality when collecting assessment data from clients (Communication)
• Accurately summarize and document health assessment findings (Communication)
• Use the nursing process to guide nursing care in collaboration with the client/family (Collaboration)
• Accept personal responsibility, active participation, and reflection of current relevant information to support health assessment while participating in own development as a professional nurse through acts of integrity and mutual respect (Professional Role)
• Explore how one’s own personal beliefs and values could influence communication, prioritization and education (Professional Role)
• Reflect on one’s personal health well-being and apply a health model to guide a personal behavior change (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
• 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 (Transtheoretical Model)
• Behavior change project
• Assessment of the pregnant client
• Assessment of the infant
• Assessment of the child and adolescent
• Assessment of the older adult