Health Assessment Course Outline for Nursing: Interviewing, Head-to-Toe Examination and the OSCE

A bachelor of science in nursing course outline for the health assessment unit. It gives the learning outcomes, then the content: comprehensive health assessment and the elements of health history, professionalism in assessment, therapeutic communication and interviewing and questioning technique. The delivery schedule runs week by week through general survey and pain assessment, vital signs, the four examination techniques and the systematic head-to-toe assessment of the eyes and ears, skin, head and neck, neurological system, thorax and lungs, breast, cardiovascular and peripheral vascular systems, abdomen, genitourinary and musculoskeletal systems and nutrition, with the diagnostics. It also sets out the continuous assessment test, group assignment, OSCE and final exam weighting and the principal texts.