This course provides the students with the knowledge and skill necessary to perform a comprehensive health assessment utilizing the skills of history taking, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Normal assessment findings, frequently seen variations from normal and cultural differences are discussed. 

The course is taught online for 10 weeks and covers ten sessions which cover introduction and inquiry of health history, physical assessment from head to toe, common symptoms assessment and making nursing diagnosis, normal and common abnormal ECGs, common laboratory tests and the clinical significance of common abnormalities.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:  

1. Demonstrate history-taking and interviewing skills necessary for comprehensive data collection.  

2. Demonstrate beginning level skill in the techniques of physical exam: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.  

3. Differentiate between normal and abnormal assessment findings.  

4. Apply relevant anatomy and physiology to the health assessment process.  5. Integrate health assessment into the nursing process and nursing practice.  

6. Differentiate between normal and abnormal ECGs and lab tests.

7. Make nursing diagnosis based on clinical cases. 

    This course will facilitate you to learn the clinical courses well to be a good nurse. 

1. Demonstrate history-taking and interviewing skills necessary for comprehensive data collection. 

2. Demonstrate beginning level skill in the techniques of physical exam: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. 

3. Differentiate between normal and abnormal assessment findings. 

4. Apply relevant anatomy and physiology to the health assessment process.  

5. Integrate health assessment into the nursing process and nursing practice. 

6. Differentiate between normal and abnormal ECGs and lab tests.

7. Make nursing diagnosis based on clinical cases.

Prerequisites: Anatomy, Physiology, Patho-physiology, and Introduction to Nursing etc. 

1．Janet Weber, Jane Kelley. Health Assessment in Nursing. 4th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010

2. Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet. Nursing diagnosis: application to clinical practice. 10th ed.   Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.

3. Xuehong Wan. Clinical Diagnostics. 1st Edition. People's Medical Publishing House, 2017

4. Cynthia Fenske, Katherine Watkins, Tina Saunders, et al. Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing, 4th Edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.2019

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