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.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course the student will be able to

•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

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