Nursing health assessment: a best practice approach

Unit 1: Foundations of nursing health assessment. The nurse's role in health assessment

The health history and interview

Techniques of assessment and safety

Documentation and interprofessional communication. Unit 2: General examinations. Vital signs and general survey

Pain assessment

Nutritional assessment

Assessment of developmental stages

Mental health, violence, and drug abuse

Cultural assessment. Unit 3: Regional examinations, Skin, hair, and nails assessment

Head and neck, with vision and hearing basics

Eye assessment for advanced and specialty practice

Ear assessment for advanced and specialty practice

Nose, sinuses, mouth, and throat

Thorax and lung assessment

Heart and neck vessels assessment

Peripheral vascular and lymphatic assessment

Breasts and axillae assessment

Abdominal assessment

Musculoskeletal assessment

Neurological and mental status

Male genitalia and rectal assessment

Female genitalia and rectal assessment. Unit 4: Special populations and foci. Pregnant women

Newborns and infants

Children and adolescents

Older adults. Unit 5: Putting it all together. Assessment of the hospitalized adult

Head-to-toe assessment of the adult.