This course prepares students to conduct comprehensive health assessments. Students will develop clinical reasoning skills, physical and psychosocial assessment techniques, and critical thinking skills to inform clinical decision-making. Students will synthesize knowledge gained from this course and required science courses to perform and understand holistic assessments with diverse populations in a variety of healthcare settings.
Outcomes: Apply clinical reasoning and judgment to conduct comprehensive health assessments across diverse populations; Synthesize and translate assessment data using systematic processes to identify health problems and develop comprehensive, person-centered nursing plans that address actual and potential health needs; Demonstrate assessment knowledge by performing comprehensive health histories and applying clinically relevant physical, psychosocial, and functional assessment findings that distinguish normal from abnormal findings, identify health disparities, and inform nursing practice across the adult lifespan and four spheres of care; Describe system-level quality and safety practices that utilize evidence-based assessment protocols and policies that improve patient outcomes across healthcare settings.
Outcomes: Apply clinical reasoning and judgment to conduct comprehensive health assessments across diverse populations; Synthesize and translate assessment data using systematic processes to identify health problems and develop comprehensive, person-centered nursing plans that address actual and potential health needs; Demonstrate assessment knowledge by performing comprehensive health histories and applying clinically relevant physical, psychosocial, and functional assessment findings that distinguish normal from abnormal findings, identify health disparities, and inform nursing practice across the adult lifespan and four spheres of care; Describe system-level quality and safety practices that utilize evidence-based assessment protocols and policies that improve patient outcomes across healthcare settings.