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ACC 222 - Holistic Advanced Physical Assessment and Pathophysiological
This course will provide the student with the knowledge and skills to identify abnormal physiologic findings. The student will utilize this knowledge and skill in completing a health history and physical assessment identifying the patient's biopsychosocial status.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Use the appropriate communications skills necessary to complete a health history
- Demonstrate the four examination techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation
- Identify the major cultural variables to be addressed in a health history and physical assessment
- Complete a health history that includes information on the assessment/functioning of: skin, hair, nails, head, face, neck, ears, nose, throat, eyes, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, neurological system, musculoskeletal system, abdomen, breast and axilla, male and femal genitalia
- Identify body structures and functions that need to be assessed in specific disorders
- Explain how the signs and symptoms of specific disorders are produced by the alternations in body structure and function
- Correlate subjective complaints with pathophysiologic findings upon physical assessment
- Recognize the social and ethical concerns involved in the evaluation of patient health concerns and the obligation of confidentiality
- Perform a physcial examination to validate information obtained in the heatlh history
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: For nursing students: Successful completion of a minimum of one year in a basic RN program including basic anatomy and physiology courses.
For Paramedic students: Successful completion of BIO 118.
For graduate and registered nurses: no pre-requisites.