Health Promotion and Assessment - NSG 200 at Virginia Western Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu./colleges/vwcc/courses/NSG200-HealthPromotionandAssessment
Effective: 2023-08-01
Course Description
Introduces assessment and health promotion for the individual and family. Includes assessment of infants, children, adults, geriatric clients and pregnant females. Emphasizes health history and the acquisition of physical assessment skills with underlying concepts of development, communication, and health promotion. Prepares students to demonstrate competency in the assessment of clients across the lifespan. Provides supervised learning experiences in college nursing laboratories, clinical/community settings, and/or simulated environments.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
This course provides novice students with an opportunity to develop health assessment skills across the lifespan.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisites: BIO 141 (or BIO 231)
Course Objectives
- Use therapeutic communication, caring behaviors and client self-determination when completing a health history and physical assessment.
- Report patient safety issues and potential health risks in the performance of health assessment across the lifespan.
- Perform basic physical assessment across the lifespan.
- Identify differences in assessment techniques in clients of varying ages and stages of development.
- Assess factors contributing to health promotion and lifestyle choices.
- Recognize cues related to client assessment and health promotion.
- Identify the safety practices necessary for medication preparation and administration.
- Utilize the CDC vaccination guidelines for health care promotion and education across the lifespan.
Major Topics to be Included
- Communication Concept
- Communication theories
- Interviewing skills
- Therapeutic Communication
- Exemplars to include: health history, electronic health record and documentation
- Development Concept
- Developmental assessment: infant, child, adolescent, adult, geriatric client
- Exemplars: developmental delay in the child, developmentally challenged adults
- Health Promotion/Adherence/Motivation Concept
- Response to illness
- Self--management
- Motivational theories
- Pharmacology: Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine (HIB), Hepatitis A and B, Herpes Zoster, Human Papillovirus Vaccine (HPV), Polio, Influenza (Flu), Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR), Meningococcal, Pneumococcal (PCV 13, PCV 15, PCV 20, PCV 23), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Rotavirus,Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis (TDaP), Varicella, COVID
- Exemplars: risk factor modification: smoking cessation, exercise, diet, and vaccinations across the lifespan
- Assessment Techniques
- Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation across the lifespan
- Vital signs
- Cognition Concept
- Assessment of mental status
- Tissue Integrity Concept
- Assessment of the skin
- Temperature measurement
- Perfusion Concept
- Assessment of cardiovascular system
- Blood pressure and pulse measurement
- Assessment of the lymphatic system
- Gas Exchange Concept
- Assessment of the respiratory system
- Respiration and pulse oximetry measurement
- Elimination Concept
- Assessment of the gastrointestinal and urinary systems
- Mobility Concept
- Assessment of the musculoskeletal system
- Intracranial Concept
- Assessment of neurological system
- Sensory Perception Concept
- Assessment of the head, neck, nose, mouth and throat
- Assessment of the eyes and ears
- Reproduction Concept
- Assessment of the genitalia
- Breast assessment
- Assessment of the pregnant female