NURS 1110 - Health Assessment and Health Promotion I

Institution:

Northeast Community College

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Description:

The focus of this course in on basic health assessment, history skills, and promotion of wellness by using holistic nursing assessments for well clients. This includes use of healthy life style strategies and primary prevention. Using a developmental perspective, the course will provide the student with the opportunity to develop beginning knowledge and skills necessary to assess the health status of the client by collecting health history and performing a physical examination. The content builds upon the student s knowledge of science and humanities, as related to the holistic aspects of health. Assessment will reflect recognition of normal, variation of normal, and deviations from normal findings. The course provides supervised practice in the laboratory setting to assist the student with skill development. It is expected that the knowledge and skills the student learns in this course will serve as a basis for further development of assessment skills in the clinical nursing courses that follow.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.northeast.edu

Phone Number:

(402) 371-2020

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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