Assistant Course Description Course Objectives Learning Outcomes

GENERAL HEALTH - HEKL. 204 (1)
2013 SPRING
Class Meeting Location
Class Meeting Times
FR A6,FR A7
Instructor
Office Hours
Office Location
Office Phone
Email
Web Address
EMİNE TÜRKMEN
Monday: 13:00-14:00- Thursday: 13:30-14:30
Number of Credits
ECTS Credits
Prerequisites
Language
4
7
2641
[email protected]
Turkish
Assistant
N/A
Course Description
This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a complete health assessment and physical examination for
planning of nursing care in adult-age groups. The process of data collection, interpretation and documentation will be addressed.
Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection and auscultation in assessing of
adult clients in laboratory and actual environments. (Lecture and clinical)
Course Objectives
This course designed to:
? Teach the students the importance of health history and physical examination on ill and well patients for planning of nursing care in
adult-age groups,
? Train the students how to establish well environment for taking history and conducting physical examination,
? Teach the students how to conduct and document a complete health history in the clinical setting,
? Educate the students how to perform inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation,
? Train the students how to perform and document a complete physical examination / assessment step by step for each body systems
(head-to-toe) in the clinical setting,
? Teach the students how to interpret and classify normal and abnormal signs and symptoms which are collected in health
assessment and physical examination.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
? Describe physical, cognitive, and psychosocial characteristics for adult-age groups,
? Explain the purpose and content of health history and conduct a complete health history on ill and well patients, and record the data,
? Establish an environment suitable for conducting a physical assessment and demonstrate inspection, palpation, percussion,
auscultation in the clinical setting,
? Conduct a complete physical examination/assessment step by step for each systems using appropriate techniques on a patient
(head-to-toe: behavioral and mental status, skin, head, neck, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, throat, breasts, thorax and lungs, heart and
peripheral vasculature, abdomen, extremities and neurological system),
? Document a complete health history and physical examination,
? Interpret and classify normal and abnormal signs and symptoms that they collected via physical examination and history taking,
? Know how to use data gathering assessment and examination of the patient for nursing care plan.
Teaching Methods
? Presentations, Question - Answer
? Audio-visual equipment and resources (video films)
? Demonstration (skills)
? Laboratory practice (skills)
? Clinical practice
Course Contents
Session
Starting Date
Number
Topics
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Age characteristics in adult clients Nursing home environment
Interviewing skills and techniques Physical assessment techniques
Examination of skin, hair, nails Face, head, neck and regional lymphatics
Examination of eyes, ears
Examination of nose, mouth, throat
Examination of respiratory systems
Examination of cardiovascular systems
Abdominal exam
Midterm exam
Breasts and regional lymphatics
Examination of neurologic systems
Examination of neurologic systems
Simulation in the skill laboraory
Head-to-toe examination ? case study-nursing diagnoses
08/02/2013
15/02/2013
22/02/2013
01/03/2013
08/03/2013
15/03/2013
22/03/2013
29/03/2013
05/04/2013
19/04/2013
26/04/2013
03/05/2013
03/05/2013
10/05/2013
Assessment Methods
Type
Description
Final Grade, %
Midterm Test
Final Exam
Clinical
Assignments
Other
Other
Midterm exam
Final exam
20
30
Clinical Assignments
25
Evaluation of skill improvement (in laboratory and clinical practice settings)
Clinical practice - skill checklist
15
10
100
Total
Workload Breakdown
Type
Description
Hours
Lecture
Lab
Clinical Practice
Other
Other
Lecture
laboratory
Clinical practice
Preparation for laboratory and clinical practice (2 hrs per week)
Studying for final and midterm exam
Case reports (patient assessment and physical examination per each patient per week (2
hrs/week)and end of semestre (10 hrs) + nursing care plans (5 hrs)
28
56
56
28
15
Other
Total
43
226
Sources
Reference Materials
Carpenito-Moyet, L.J. (2004). Handbook of nursing diagnosis. 10th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Erdemir, F. (çeviri)
(2005). Hemşirelik tanıları el kitabı.Türkçeleştirilmiş ikinci baskı. İstanbul: Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri. 4. Sevinç, S. (2007). Abdominal
değerlendirme. Hemşirelikte Eğitim ve Araştırma Dergisi 4(1):10-20. Sevinç, S. (2006). Kardiyovasküler değerlendirme.
Hemşirelikte Eğitim ve Araştırma Dergisi 3(1):12-21. 6. Sepit, D. (2005). Solunum sisteminin değerlendirilmesi. Hemşirelikte
Eğitim ve Araştırma Dergisi 2(2):16-19. Sepit, D. (2005). Bilinç durumunun değerlendirilmesi ve Glaskow koma skalası.
Hemşirelikte Eğitim ve Araştırma Dergisi 2(1):12-16. 8. Carolyn, J. (2012). Pocket companion for physical examination and
health assessment. 6th ed. St. Louis: Elsevier/Saunders. Carolyn, J. (2012). Physical examination and health assessment. 6th
ed. Philadelphia: Saunders. Estes, M., Zator, E. (2010). Health assessment and physical examination. Clifton Park: Delmar,
Cengage Learning. Bickley, L.S. and Szilagyi, P.G. (2009) Bates? guide to physical examination and history taking. 10 th ed.
Philadelhia: Wolter Kluwers/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Talley, J.T. and O?Connor, S.A. (2010) Systematic guide to physical
diagnosis: Clinical examination. 6th ed. Sydney: Churchill Livingstone. 13. Seidel, H.M., Ball, J.W., Dains, J.E., Flynn, J.A.,
Solomon, B.S., Stewart, R.W. (2011) Mosby?s guide to physical examination. 7th ed. St Louis: Mosby Elsevier. 14. Birol, L.
(2009). Hemşirelik süreci: Hemşirelik bakımında sistematik yaklaşım. Genişletilmiş 9. baskı. İzmir: Etki Matbaacılık Yayıncılık.
Required Readings
Swartz, M.H. (2006). Textbook of physical diagnosis and examination. Ünal, S. (çev. ed) (2006). Fiziksel tanı: hikaye alma ve
muayene. 4. baskı, Ankara: Güneş Kitabevi. Bickley, L.S. (2004) Bates fizik muayene rehberi. Özsüt, H., Tetikkurt C.,
Vatansever S. İstanbu: Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri
Other
N/A
Academic Dishonesty
N/A