NURS 3164 - Health Assessment

Common Course Number: NURS 31644
Credit Hours: 4
Contact Hours: 2.5 Lecture, 4.5 Lab
Offered: Fall, Spring

Focuses on the development of skills necessary for assessing the physical health status of both adult and pediatric clients. Skills of inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion are emphasized. Students apply classroom content in clinical and simulated laboratory situations. Course meets the UAFS BSN program’s requirement for health assessment.

Prerequisite: admission to the BSN program, or consent of executive director of the School of Nursing or dean of the College of Health, Education, and Human Sciences, and (BSNAccelerated only) HLTH 3103 - Pathophysiology
Corequisite: (BSN-Accelerated only): NURS 2103 - Introduction To Professional Nursing, NURS 3113 - Nursing Skills, and NURS 3227 - Foundations Of Nursing Care
Prerequisite or Corequisite: (BSN only): HLTH 3103 - Pathophysiology and NURS 2103 - Introduction To Professional Nursing