LibGuides: NSG214A: Module 1

Handouts

Download, save, and use the following handouts.

You will use them while participating in learning activities and to complete assignments due in this module.

Nursing Health Assessment Lab Experience Log
This document is required for logging your clinical hours throughout the course. Completing 45 hours of clinical practice is a requirement of this course. If you do not meet this requirement, you will receive an “Incomplete,” and you will not be able to progress in the program at that point.
Health History Template
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Interview Techniques and Assignment 1: Conduct a Health History Interview and Write a Comprehensive Health History Paper.
Vital Signs Assessment Skills Checklist
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Measuring Vital Signs and Assignment 3: Demonstrate Vital Signs.

Lesson 1 Required Resources

Nurses - Think Cultural Health
Office of Minority Health. (n.d.). Nurses - Think cultural health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/education/nurses
This e-learning program will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to provide the best care for all patients, regardless of cultural or linguistic background. Think Cultural Health (TCH) is dedicated to advancing health equity at every point of contact. With growing concerns about health inequities and the need for healthcare systems to reach increasingly diverse patient populations, cultural competence has become more and more a matter of national concern.

This website is required for Assignment 2: Incorporate Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Patient Interactions. You will not be able to complete the assignment if you do not access the website. This e-learning program will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to provide the best care for all patients, regardless of cultural or linguistic background. Think Cultural Health (TCH) is dedicated to advancing health equity at every point of contact. With growing concerns about health inequities and the need for health care systems to reach increasingly diverse patient populations, cultural competence has become more and more a matter of national concern.

Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis
ISBN: 9780323510806
Publication Date: 2019-02-04
Jarvis, C. (2020). Physical examination and health assessment (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
You will learn to carefully examine patients as you develop and practice their health history and develop and practice your physical examination skills. This book will serve as a resource for you to learn to trust your skills and serve as a resource for future clinical practice.
Read the following chapters:
- Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Assessment
  This chapter will support you as you develop your patient's health history. It covers direct and open-ended questions to facilitate a health history interview and assessing symptoms with eight characteristics.
- Chapter 3: The Interview
  This chapter will support you as you develop your patient's health history. It covers therapeutic communication techniques, using direct and open-ended questions to facilitate a health history interview, and creating an environment conducive to successful interviewing.
- Chapter 4: The Complete Health History, pp. 45-61
  This chapter will support you as you develop your patient's health history. It covers required elements of complete health history, including the sociocultural assessment, approved medical abbreviation in documenting health history interview, and accurately documenting health history interview.
Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis
ISBN: 9780323532020
Publication Date: 2019
Jarvis, Carolyn (2019). Pocket companion for physical examination and health assessment. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
This small book is a portable reference that makes it fast and simple to review essential assessment skills and techniques. You may conduct more effective exams in the clinical setting with this valuable reference! It is important to become very familiar with each page, as we progress through the course, so you may carry it with you to each clinical practice setting.

Please take the time to mark the location of key concepts for quick reference when providing patient care in the clinical setting.
- Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Assessment
- Chapter 2: Cultural Competence
- Chapter 3: The Interview
- Chapter 4: The Complete Health History

Lesson 1 Recommended Resources

You are encouraged to review lectures from NSG214 to help you complete this lesson's activities successfully.

Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (4th ed.) by American Nurses Association
ISBN: 9780999308868
Publication Date: 2021
American Nurses Association. (2021). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (4th ed.).
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition is an essential document for every nurse. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting. You will learn to describe the relationships between the nursing process, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical judgment while completing assessments.

Reading Assignments:
- Scope of Nursing Practice pp. 1-12
  The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting.
  You will learn to describe the relationships between the nursing process, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical judgment while completing assessments.
- Scope of Nursing Practice pp. 19-26
  You will learn to explain Nursing’s social contract including the relationship with society as a whole that is founded in respect, equity, inclusion and social justice.
  
  Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary (23rd Ed.).), (2017). Philadelphia, PA. F.A. Davis Company. ISBN -13: 978-0-0803659049 As you work to become familiar with a variety of words that are unique to medical terminology, Taber's Medical Dictionary will provide easy access to the meaning so that you may understand these terms and quickly convert each word to a level of language that is easy for your future patients to understand.
  
  ○ Or you may choose the latest edition of Taber’s Medical Dictionary Online that provides more than 75,000 definitions, 33,700 audio pronunciations, 1,300 images, and 130 videos. However you prefer to learn the terms is your choice., but you must become comfortable engaging in scholarly writing and conversations using this professional language for interactions with nursing, medical, and interprofessional healthcare providers.
You can access this eBook by going to the DART eBook link under "Getting Started."
Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis
ISBN: 9780323510806
Publication Date: 2019-02-04
Jarvis, C. (2020). Physical examination and health assessment (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
You will learn to carefully examine patients as you develop and practice their health history and develop and practice your physical examination skills. This book will serve as a resource for you to learn to trust your skills and serve as a resource for future clinical practice.
Read the following chapters:
- Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Assessment
  You will apply steps of the nursing process, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical judgment for completing nursing health assessments.
- Chapter 2: Cultural Competence
  You will apply your knowledge of the basic characteristics of culture, cultural competence, and the cultural assessment including transcultural considerations when completing health assessments across the lifespan.

Chapter 3: The Interview

You will utilize therapeutic communication techniques when assessing patients and collecting health histories.

Use direct and open-ended questions to facilitate a health history interview.

Create an environment conducive to successful interviewing.

Chapter 4: The Complete Health History, pp. 45-61
- You will describe required elements of a complete health history including the sociocultural assessment.
  - You will identify approved medical abbreviation in documenting health history interview.
    - You will accurately document health history interview accurately document health history interview accurately including the sociocultural assessment.

Lesson 2 Required Resources

Evolve Resources for Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 8th Edition
This is a supplementary resource that is free with your purchase of the course textbook. Use your purchase product key to register at the following link: https://evolve.elsevier.com
For this lesson, please review the following multimedia and the Key Points in each chapter:
- Animations
  - Chapter 9: General survey and measurement
    Physiology of blood pressure
    Pulse oximetry
- Video assessments
  - Chapter 8: Assessment techniques and safety in the clinical setting
    Approach
    General appearance
    Measurements
    Vital signs

Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis
ISBN: 9780323510806
Publication Date: 2019-02-04
Jarvis, C. (2020). Physical examination and health assessment (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
You will learn to carefully examine patients as you develop and practice their health history and develop and practice your physical examination skills. This book will serve as a resource for you to learn to trust your skills and serve as a resource for future clinical practice.
Read the following chapters:
- Chapter 5: Mental Status Assessment pp. 63-71 & 74-77 & 81
  You will incorporate the components of a mental status assessment and relevance to determining a patient's cognitive and emotional status in your hands-on clinical practice.
- Chapter 8: Assessment Techniques and Safety in the Clinical Setting pp. 113-120
  You will practice infection prevention techniques and initiate standard precautions for all patient care.
- Chapter 9: General Survey & Measurement pp. 125-138
  You will practice techniques to perform the General Survey assessment including documentation in the medical record.

Chapter 10: Vital Signs pp. 139-161
- You will apply your knowledge of blood pressure and the difference between systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressures and the implications across the lifespan.
- You will practice techniques to perform the assessment of vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure accurately.

Chapter 11: Pain Assessment pp. 161-178
- You will perform appropriate pain assessment techniques using various standardized scales and nursing considerations for socio-cultural and developmental differences across the lifespan.

You can access this eBook by going to the DART eBook link under "Getting Started."

Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment by Carolyn Jarvis

ISBN: 9780323532020

Publication Date: 2019

Jarvis, Carolyn (2019). Pocket companion for physical examination and health assessment. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
This small book is a portable reference that makes it fast and simple to review essential assessment skills and techniques. You may conduct more effective exams in the clinical setting with this valuable reference! It is important to become very familiar with each page, as we progress through the course, so you may carry it with you to each clinical practice setting.

Lesson 2 Recommended Resources

You are encouraged to review lectures from NSG214 to help you complete this lesson's activities successfully.

Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (4th ed.) by American Nurses Association
ISBN: 9780999308868
Publication Date: 2021
American Nurses Association. (2021). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (4th ed.).
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition is an essential document for every nurse. The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting. You will learn to describe the relationships between the nursing process, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical judgment while completing assessments.

Reading Assignments:
- Scope of Nursing Practice pp. 1-12
  The scope of practice statement answers the who, what, when, where, how, and why questions of nursing. The standards provide authoritative statements of the actions and behaviors that all registered nurses are expected to competently perform, regardless of role, population, specialty, and setting.
  You will learn to describe the relationships between the nursing process, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical judgment while completing assessments.
- Scope of Nursing Practice pp. 19-26
  You will learn to explain Nursing’s social contract including the relationship with society as a whole that is founded in respect, equity, inclusion and social justice.
Taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary (23 rd Ed.). (2017), (2017). Philadelphia. F.A. Davis Company. ISBN-13: 978-0-083659049 As you work to become familiar with a variety of words that are unique to medical terminology, Taber's Medical Dictionary will provide easy access to the meaning so that you may understand these terms and quickly convert each word to a level of language that is easy for your future patients to understand.
Or you may choose the latest edition of Taber's Medical Dictionary Online that provides more than 75,000 definitions, 33,700 audio pronunciations, 1,300 images, and 130 videos. However you prefer to learn the terms is your choice, but you must become comfortable engaging in scholarly writing and conversations using this professional language for interactions with nursing, medical, and interprofessional healthcare providers
You can access this eBook by going to the DART eBook link under "Getting Started."