NUR 3021 - Health Assessment (4)

When Offered: Fall
This course examines the integration of evidence-based knowledge and skills of health assessment into the nurse’s roles of provider of care and designer, manager, and coordinator of care. Through the presentation of the concepts of health assessment, coupled with the nursing process, this course emphasizes assessment, identification and documentation of normal and abnormal physical and psychosocial findings across the lifespan with an appreciation of different cultural factors that may influence health. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours.
Prerequisite: admission to the online RN to BSN degree program.