NUR 206 Health Assessments
Details the process and practice of professional nursing. The health assessment component emphasizes the importance of utilizing techniques of inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation as tools to providing holistic client-centered care. The mastery of health assessments provides the professional nurse with the database necessary for deriving nursing diagnoses-that which designates nursing's authentic locus-and to intervene and assist in actual or potential health problems, thereby assisting the client to achieve optimal levels of self-care. This health assessment will be presented by a systematic head-to-toe approach emphasizing integration as a whole. The use of nursing theory and the nursing process will be the conceptual framework for practice. 2 theory hours and 2 laboratory hours per week.
Prerequisite
Freshman and first-semester sophomore courses required in the Nursing Program or per- mission of instructor.
Corequisite
Taken concurrently with NUR 204.