TNC210 - Applied Health Assessment and Advanced Skills

Subject Title
Applied Health Assessment and Advanced Skills

Subject Description
Applied Health Assessment and Advanced Skills is a comprehensive course designed to enhance patient assessment capabilities. This course focuses on developing advanced skills in health assessment, including complex physical examinations and comprehensive patient evaluations. By integrating theoretical knowledge with practical application, students will learn how to identify, analyze, and interpret normal and abnormal findings, building their ability to make accurate clinical judgments.
 
This course applies concepts of health assessment fundamentals, patho-pharmacotherapy, communication and clinical inquiry to client scenarios emphasizing clinical reasoning and decision-making skills. The student will accurately predict and prioritize client care needs from the evidence obtained from health assessment. The student will advance their understanding of the nurse?s role and client safety regarding advance skills. The student will apply communication models to provide accurate and complete information to clients, family and team members.  The student will practice in a simulation laboratory and perform health assessments with requisite skills. The student will gain confidence and demonstrate clinical judgment to perform and identify abnormal findings and predict care needs. 

Credit Status
3

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

Upon successful completion of this subject, the student will be able to:

1. Relate the importance of health assessment to clinical judgement and quality care client care decision making.
2. Identify abnormal findings when performing a health assessment and understand their meaning.
3. Appraise and perform initial observation and assessment of the client’s condition.
4. Differentiate urgent, emergent, and life-threatening situations.
5. Examine the components of an inclusive health assessment and apply to special populations: Indigenous, LGBTQ, refugees/ immigrants, diabetics, geriatrics, palliative and others.
6. Integrate laboratory and diagnostic results with history and physical assessment findings to determine the most likely client priority based on clinical judgment.
7. Comprehend the nurse’s role and client safety to perform a variety of advanced health assessment skills.

Essential Employability Skills

    •  Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken and visual form that fulfils the purpose and meets the needs of the audience.

    •  Respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.

    •  Execute mathematical operations accurately.

    •  Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.

    •  Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.

    •  Locate, select, organize, and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.

    •  Analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.

    •  Show respect for diverse opinions, values, belief systems, and contributions of others.

    •  Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.

    •  Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.

    •  Take responsibility for one's own actions, decisions, and consequences.

Academic Integrity
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Please visit the Academic Integrity website http://open2.senecac.on.ca/sites/academic-integrity/for-students to understand and learn more about how to prepare and submit work so that it supports academic integrity, and to avoid academic misconduct.

Discrimination/Harassment
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Accommodation for Students with Disabilities
The College will provide reasonable accommodation to students with disabilities in order to promote academic success. If you require accommodation, contact the Counselling and Accessibility Services Office at ext. 22900 to initiate the process for documenting, assessing and implementing your individual accommodation needs.

Camera Use and Recordings - Synchronous (Live) Classes
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Students joining a live class online may be required to have a working camera in order to participate, or for certain activities (e.g. group work, assessments), and high-speed broadband access (e.g. Cable, DSL) is highly recommended. In the event students encounter circumstances that impact their ability to join the platform with their camera on, they should reach out to the professor to discuss. Live classes may be recorded and made available to students to support access to course content and promote student learning and success.

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