NUR 121 - Basic Physical Assessment

1 credit hour - 13.5 hours of lecture and 9 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  with a grade of C or better and MAT 135  or MAT 137  or a higher level math course with a grade of C or better.

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

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

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.