NURS 1112 - Health Assessment Across the Lifespan

• Students will be able to apply evidence-based clinical reasoning to the assessment of patients across the lifespan.
• Students will be able to demonstrate safety principles in the performance of health assessment skills.
• Students will be able to demonstrate collection and documentation of an integrated head-to-toe health assessment.
• Students will be able to assess the impact of psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and individual physiological differences on health assessment concepts and skills.
• Students will be able to apply foundational knowledge of the nursing process to assess patients across the lifespan.
• Students will be able to provide knowledge and resources necessary to teach patients and/or caregiver(s) about issues pertinent to health assessment.
• Students will be able to demonstrate effective communication with patients, caregiver(s), members of the community, and members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Students will be able to demonstrate professional behavior in the classroom and lab.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the nurse’s legal, ethical, and professional standards of care with regards to health assessment skills and concepts.