Nursing and Health Assessment

An Undergraduate Library Subject Guide providing suggested resources and other information for beginning research on the topic Nursing and Health Assessment.

Overview
This course introduces students to issues that will guide their practice as nurses and gives them insight into perspectives of health, illness and death. It covers history and evolution of Nursing; discipline and practice of Nursing; therapeutic interactions and philosophies.

It is an introductory pre-clinical course that is a prerequisite course to clinical placements; it recognizes prior learning of the subject by the student. A review of basic Nursing skills through the classroom presentation of theory followed by laboratory and clinical application is done.
The course covers all aspects in care of patients.