Health Assessment: Adults and Older Adults
Overview
In this course, the holistic health assessment of adults and older adults and a variety of basic psychomotor skills used in nursing practice with adults and older adults are the foci for discussion. The concepts and essential content that will be addressed relative to these topics are listed below. In addition, the core curriculum concepts are integrated in this course.
Holistic health assessment of adults and older adults with a focus on physical assessment
- Comprehensive assessment
- Focused systems assessment
- Ongoing, continuous, and episodic assessment (introduction)
- Vital sign measurement
- Integumentary assessment
- Rest and sleep
- Nursing health history
- Reporting and documenting assessments and nursing care
Psychomotor skills commonly used in nursing practice with adult and older adult clients
- Hygiene
- Toileting
- Occupied bed making
- Range of motion
- Medication administration
- Specimen collection
- Prevention of complications
Safety
- Safe work practices
- Falls risk assessment
- Transfers
- Positioning
- Body mechanics
- Mechanical assists
- Mobility aids
- Infection transmission precautions
- Handling biohazardous materials
- Cultural safety
Nurse's role
- Consolidation, integration, and application of course and other nursing knowledge in simulated nursing practice experiences.
Concepts relative to health assessment to be explored include:
- Purpose
- Principles
- Engaging with clients
- Planning
- Rationale
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Preventing complications
It is the intent of faculty to facilitate student learning, and promote critical inquiry, reflection and analytical reasoning through the use of active experiential learning strategies including simulation, online learning activities, and laboratory practice.
The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College Evaluation Policy. A course evaluation schedule and other course evaluation information are provided on the instructor’s course outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester. This is a graded course.
At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for basic comprehensive and focused physical assessment of adults and older adults.
- Demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for the safe implementation of a variety of basic psychomotor skills commonly used in nursing practice with adults and older adults.
- Demonstrate the integration and application of course and other nursing knowledge in simulated nursing practice experiences.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:
A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided on the instructor’s course outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for NURS 2112 |
|---|---|
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | DOUG NURS 2112 (2.5) & DOUG NURS 2212 (2.5) = KPU HEAL 2150 (3) |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | No credit |
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
14528
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Wed | Instructor last name
Panesar
Instructor first name
Anji
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Course status
Full
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| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
14529
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Wed | Instructor last name
Panesar
Instructor first name
Anji
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Course status
Open
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| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
14530
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Wed | Instructor last name
King
Instructor first name
Alysha
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Course status
Open
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