RNSG-1215 Health Assessment

Outcomes

1. Describe the components of a comprehensive nursing health assessment.
2. Demonstrate professional nursing roles in a systematic process of health assessment.
3. Describe the equipment needed, methods used and nursing legal standards to follow in order to accurately assess a patient's health and health needs.
4. Describe age-related, social, cultural, ethnic and situational variations in data that can be expected to be found when assessing the physical and mental status of a patient.
5. In simulated situations, using the first two steps in the nursing process as a clinical reasoning tool, practice focused and comprehensive health assessments and interpret the data collected as nursing diagnoses.
6. Describe the basic effective communication techniques used by the nurse; the legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters that govern the nurse when performing health assessments.
7. Identify state and national regulations, standards, principles and measures that promote a safe environment for performing health assessments that reduce risks for patients, self and other, and provide quality care for patients.
8. Identify situations where the nurse will need to obtain instruction, supervision or training when implementing nursing skills and practice.
9. Practice coordinating, collaborating, and communicating with clients and their families and a simulated health care team performing a variety of basic nursing skills.
10. Using simulated patient encounters, demonstrate accountability for own actions in the care of the patient by performing a safe, systematic, accurate comprehensive health assessment with documentation within legal parameters.
11. Identify the nurse's responsibility and accountability for providing quality health care to clients and their families while performing a comprehensive health assessment.