HEALTH ASSESSMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use professional communication techniques and differentiate between the history-taking of patients based on cultural or developmental difference. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an ability to use interviewing techniques and systematically take and record a health history. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Manipulate and use correctly certain instruments required in carrying out a physical examination. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Perform a physical examination and begin to differentiate between the wide range of normal and grossly abnormal findings through the physical examination. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Record the physical examination findings, including cognitive and emotional status. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize normal variance in history and physical findings based on cultural or developmental differences. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use professional communication techniques and differentiate between the history-taking of patients based on cultural or developmental difference. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate an ability to use interviewing techniques and systematically take and record a health history. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Manipulate and use correctly certain instruments required in carrying out a physical examination. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Perform a physical examination and begin to differentiate between the wide range of normal and grossly abnormal findings through the physical examination. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Record the physical examination findings, including cognitive and emotional status. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize normal variance in history and physical findings based on cultural or developmental differences. Audience: Undergraduate