NU 316 - Health Assessment for RNs

1. Demonstrates professional behaviors in patient interactions and communications.
2. Communicates exam findings in a clear and concise manner in written and verbal formats.
3. Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients, using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches
4. Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems
5. Recognize the relationship of genetics and genomics to health, prevention, screening, diagnostics, prognostics, selection of treatment, and monitoring of treatment effectiveness, using a constructed pedigree from collected family history information as well as standardized symbols and terminology
6. Provides disease prevention and health promotion education to patients.
7. Implement holistic, patient-centered care that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management, and nursing management across the health-illness continuum, across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings