Legacy Course Catalog
NUR 346 - Advanced Health Assessment
| Effectivity: | 05/19/2008 - Fall 2007 *** @ Purdue Fort Wayne Traditional |
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| Credits: | 2 |
| Instructional Types: | Lab Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Adv Health Assessment |
| Description: | This course is designed to increase nursing skills in the collection and interpretation of psychosocial, developmental, and physical health data. Through the data gathering process, the physical and psychosocial aspects of the individual's health status are examined. The skills of history taking and the performance of a basic physical assessment are emphasized. College laboratories provide opportunity for supervised practice with well adult peers. The course content and the course objectives from which they are derived include areas of history taking, communication techniques, recognition of the parameters of normal, psychomotor skills of physical examination, safe use of diagnostic equipment, identification of health problems, and the integration of the data gathering process into the total nursing process with the formulation of nursing diagnoses. |
| Department: | Nursing |
| Credit By Exam: | YES |
| Repeatable Flag: | NO |
| Temporary Flag: | NO |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
