Essentials of Health Assessment and Clinical Skills

Graduate / Professional

This course is designed to provide the student with the essential knowledge and skills to gather a comprehensive health history and perform a head-to-toe physical assessment of the patient. It aims to develop strong, clinically competent nurses with clinical reasoning skills that will allow them to provide high-quality, evidence-based patient care. Clinical skills and competency will be demonstrated in a laboratory environment. Through didactic, lab, and simulation learning the nursing student will acquire the essential skills that they will need to enter the clinical environment with confidence. This course is 5 credits and is required of all GEPN students. 5 Course cr F 9am-12:50pm