NU 316 - Health Assessment for RNs

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: None

• Demonstrates professional behaviors in patient interactions and communications.
• Communicates exam findings in a clear and concise manner in written and verbal formats.
• 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
• Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems
• 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
• Provides disease prevention and health promotion education to patients.
• 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