HLSC 2416 - Health Assessment Theory

[2 Credits]

The Health Assessment course is designed for beginning baccalaureate level nursing student. The course focuses on the principles, knowledge, and skills necessary to collect a health history and to perform a complete physical assessment throughout the individual’s life cycle. Course lectures begin with the interview, assessment tools and techniques, and then follow the traditional body-system approach, which contains audiovisuals, illustrations and discussions of the physical examination of each body system or region. Documentation of history and assessment findings, cultural and developmental considerations are discussed in each lecture and evaluated with exam items. The course builds upon professionalism and knowledge of the arts, sciences and humanities gained from previous classes. Corequisite: HLSC 2417 Prerequisite: HLSC 2410, HLSC 2412