Description
This course prepares the student to perform a comprehensive health
assessment, which includes physiological, psychological,
sociocultural, and spiritual variables. Therapeutic
communcation, 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.)