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NURS1002: Health Assessment
2024 unit information
Health assessment of individuals, families and groups is the foundation of accurate nursing judgements and is a process that occurs with each nurse-patient encounter. This represents the first two steps in the nursing assessment process of the Framework for Practice Thinking. In this unit of study, the student will be introduced to the theoretical and practical aspects of health assessment. Ways in which holistic assessment assists in making clinical judgements that form the basis for comprehensive care planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care will be addressed. Processes and mechanisms to collect physiological, psychosocial, developmental, sociocultural and spiritual data, in both objective and subjective forms, will be explored. Students’ skills in the use of health assessment tools will be introduced and developed.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Nursing and Midwifery
| Code | NURS1002 |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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NURS1004. Students unable to take NURS1002 and NURS1004 concurrently are advised to attempt NURS1004 before undertaking NURS1002 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a beginning understanding of the content and purpose of comprehensive health assessment of individuals across the life span.
- LO2. develop an understanding and the skills to apply the first two steps in the nursing assessment process of the Framework for Practice Thinking.
- LO3. discuss the purpose of observation, interview and physical assessment skills, and differentiate between objective and subjective health assessment data.
- LO4. at a beginning level, apply normal and abnormal assessment data to human anatomy and physiology.
- LO5. during the professional experience placement, perform, at a beginning level, a range of observation, assessment, communication and documentation skills in partnership with patients and consumers in a culturally safe manner (within scope of practice and under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse).
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