Practical Nursing Health Assessment

This theoretical course is designed to provide the practical nursing student with the requisite knowledge and skills required to perform patient health assessments across the lifespan. Encompassing a nursing approach, the emphasis of this course is on normal findings with an introduction to abnormal findings. The content focuses on culture and diversity, communication and therapeutic nurse or client relationship, safety, interviewing, history-taking, pain, physical, and psychosocial assessments. The following systems are examined: integumentary, head and neck, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genito-urinary, musculoskeletal and neurological across the lifespan.