NUR 121 - Basic Physical Assessment

1 credit hour - 11.25 hours of lecture and 11.25 hours of directed laboratory per term; one term.
Acquire nursing assessment skills to provide care for adult clients. 

Prerequisite(s): BIO 231  or BIO 233  or equivalent with grade of B or better.

Corequisite(s): NUR 120  and NUR 122  and BIO 232  or BIO 234  or equivalent.

Note: Typically offered at MC; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:
 

1. Care Provider:  The nursing student utilizes the health assessment process to develop an individualized nursing plan of care. 

NUR 121 Sub Learning Outcomes for Care Provider:

1. Identify components of the assessment process.
2. Demonstrate physical assessment skills.
3. Apply the nursing process through the use of assessment techniques and review of the client systems. 

2. Investigator:  Upon successful completion of the AACC nursing program the student will be able to analyze data, question assumptions and approach all clients with a curiosity resulting in safe clinical decisions that improve quality of care.

NUR 121 Sub Learning Outcomes for Investigator:

1. Acquires assessment data of a normal adult medical-surgical client.
2. Recognizes normal physical assessment findings and laboratory data.

3. Professional:  The nursing student begins to model the professional role in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices and an evolving identity as a nurse.

NUR 121 Sub Learning Outcomes for Professional:

1. Begins to demonstrate behaviors that reflect confidentiality, integrity of obtained assessment information.

4. Communicator:  The nursing student begins to model professional and therapeutic communication strategies to promote positive client outcomes. 

NUR 121 Sub Learning Outcomes for Communicator:

1. Gain knowledge of and begins to demonstrate professional communication skills.
2. Demonstrates documentation of assessment findings.