Description
This course prepares the student to perform a comprehensive health
assessment, which includes physiological, psychological,
sociocultural, and spiritual varibales. Therapeutic communication,
interviewing, and documentation skills related to the comprehensive
health assessment and interview are developed. A focus on the
theoretical basis for selected nursing skills, including safe
medication administration, and the development of the student's
psychomotor ability to perform these skills is emphasized.
Prerequisites: please refer to the School of Nursing student
resource book. (5 s.h.)