LibGuides: NSG214A: Module 3

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 Card
Refer to the Nursing Health assessment Card as you practice assessments throughout the course.
Skin Checklist
Refer to this checklist as you practice assessments throughout the course.
Pain Assessment Checklist
Refer to this checklist as you practice assessments throughout the course.
Thorax & Lungs
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Respiratory and Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems Assessments.
CV & PVD Checklist
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Respiratory and Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems Assessments.
Abdomen Checklist
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Abdominal, Musculoskeletal, and Neurological Systems Assessments.
Musculoskeletal Checklist
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Abdominal, Musculoskeletal, and Neurological Systems Assessments.
Neurological Checklist
This document is required for the Learning Activity: Practice Abdominal, Musculoskeletal, and Neurological Systems Assessments.
Geriatric Modifications Checklist
Your instructor might ask you how you would modify an assessment for geriatric patients. Refer to this checklist as you practice assessments throughout the course.

Lesson 5 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 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 6 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 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 5 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.
You can access this eBook by going to the DART eBook link under "Getting Started."

Lesson 6 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.
You can access this eBook by going to the DART eBook link under "Getting Started."