2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Jun 16, 2024  
2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]

NSG 330 - Advanced Assessment and Health Promotion


Description: Building on prior learning, focus is on assessment of families, groups, and communities. The emphasis will be on health promotion across the lifespan.

Prerequisites: Program Admission.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Health promotion: vulnerable populations, individual, family and global health
  2. Therapeutic relationships
  3. Health education: Screening, promotion, nutrition, physical activity
  4. Stress management
  5. Complimentary, integrative and alternative strategies

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Analyze historical concepts related to cultural factors of health and explain their impact on patients. (1, 3, 5)
  2. Identify risk factors of dysfunctional health patterns and create strategies to promote therapeutic relationships with diverse populations. (1-4)
  3. Assess families and communities throughout the lifespan and discuss the process and implementation of evidence to improve health promotion. (1, 3)
  4. Explain how concepts of teaching and learning impact discussions of health screenings and their role in health promotion and prevention. (1, 3)
  5. Explain the importance of nutrition counseling and physical activity across the lifespan. (3)
  6. Evaluate how stress affects a patient, psychosocial, social, spiritual, and behavioral health. (4)
  7. Examine the concepts of complementary health therapies and the role of the nurse related to alternative treatment. (5)
  8. Analyze the implications that communicable diseases have on patients and communities. (1, 3)