- Lecturer: Dr. Anushka Elvitigala
- Lecturer: Ms. Nushka Ubhayawardana
This course is designed for provide your feed back on the courses you studied with in the relevant semester and the respective lectures and instructors about their engagement in teaching and learning.
•Course content: This
course provides the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform a
comprehensive health assessment utilizing the skills of history taking, and
patient inspection. This course will provide the application of nursing
knowledge and skills on physical, psychological, socio-cultural aspects to
assess the patient’s needs and state of health to identify deviations from the
norm.
•Total no of Hours for the
module- 15hrs Theory & 30 Hours Demonstrations
in DR
•Assessment: Continuous
Assessments - 30 %( Viva), Final Examination - 70% (Theory + OSCE)
•Teaching Personnel-External
lecturer-Professor Ariyaranee & Senior lecturers of FON
•A health assessment is a plan of care
that identifies the specific needs of a person and how those needs will be
addressed by the healthcare system or skilled nursing facility. It is the
evaluation of the health status by performing a physical exam after taking a
health history.
•Comprehensive or complete the health assessment usually begins with obtaining a thorough health
history and physical exam.
•A thorough and skilled assessment allows
the nurse, to obtain descriptions about the patient’s symptoms, how the symptoms
developed, and a process to discover any associated physical findings that will
aid in the development of differential diagnoses.
At the end of the course the student will be able to
•Define Health Assessment
•Describe Health history
•Discuss types of physical assessment
•Recognize necessary equipment for
complete health assessment
•Demonstrate taking the health history
and perform a physical assessment of a patient
- Lecturer: Ayesha Medagedara
- Lecturer: Ms. Rupa Menike
- Lecturer: Nilushi Nisansala
- Lecturer: Nadini Ranaweera
- Lecturer: THILINA GUNARATHNA
- Lecturer: Dr. Thilina Gunathilaka
- Lecturer: Dr. Achala Kamaladasa
- Lecturer: Ms. Nushka Ubhayawardana
03 Credits Course Unit includes 02 Credits for theory (30 hours) and 01 Credit for clinical practice (60 hours) This is the first segment of a four-part course module that will impart knowledge on medical-surgical conditions and the nursing principles needed to give comprehensive nursing care to adolescents and adults. This course unit will be covered nursing process, prevention of diseases, health promotion, rehabilitation, health teaching, family and community counseling to emphasize the importance
of the prevention of disease as well as the curative aspects of medical and surgical conditions of adolescents and adults
- Lecturer: Ms. Ruwandi De silva
- Lecturer: Nirmala Priyadarshani
- Lecturer: Shereen Senarathne
- Lecturer: Dr. Anushka Elvitigala
- Lecturer: Dr. Sirimal Premakumara
- Lecturer: Shereen Senarathne
- Lecturer: Nirosha Edirisinghe
- Lecturer: Ms. Shiroma Malkanthie
- Lecturer: Ms. Rupa Menike
- Lecturer: Ms. Ranjani Nettasinghe
- Lecturer: Nilushi Nisansala
- Lecturer: Nadini Ranaweera
- Lecturer: Nirosha Edirisinghe
- Lecturer: Sachintha Lokuyaddage
- Lecturer: Ms. Shiroma Malkanthie
- Lecturer: Ms. Rupa Menike
- Lecturer: Ms. Ranjani Nettasinghe
- Lecturer: Nilushi Nisansala
- Lecturer: Nadini Ranaweera
- Lecturer: G.B Rohini
- Lecturer: U.G.M.P. Thilakarathna
- Lecturer: Sachintha Lokuyaddage
- Lecturer: Ms. Shiroma Malkanthie
- Lecturer: Ms. Rupa Menike
- Lecturer: Ms. Ranjani Nettasinghe