Essentials of Health Assessment and Clinical Skills II

Graduate / Professional

This course is designed to provide the student with the essential knowledge and skills to continue to enhance their comprehensive history taking skills and head-to-toe physical assessment of the patient to provide evidence-based high-quality patient care. This course builds upon skills from including obtaining a complete comprehensive history, patient interviewing, physical assessment of the patient, and clinical pyschomotor skills that were established in NURS 5050 . Clinical reasoning skills are refined for future nurses to successfully apply the foundational knowledge they will need in health assessment and clinical skills. Assessment and clinical skills acquired in this course allow the future nurse to enter the work field with confidence. This course is required for all GEPN students. Prerequisite: NURS 5050 . 3 Course cr HTBA