Prerequisite(s): BIOL 244 and BIOL 245; and NURS 200, NURS 210 and NURS 220 may be taken as prerequisite or corequisite; departmental approval. Restriction(s): Admission into the School of Nursing; not for students in the RN to BSN program. This didactic and clinical course applies the nursing process to health, physical, and psychosocial assessment. Students use therapeutic communication, knowledge of growth and development, and normal physiology, to document a culturally sensitive person-centered comprehensive health assessment for simulated persons across the lifespan. Critical thinking skills are employed to identify risk factors and social determinants that impact health status, safety, and the teaching learning process for individuals and families. Students acquire basic competency in cognitive, psychomotor, and behavioral skills required to perform a comprehensive health assessment. Special fee.