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Physical assessment/ advanced health assessment

 Introduction

Students registered in the Advanced Health Assessment course and Physical Assessment course are trained in the Physical Assessment Skills Laboratory. These courses are designed to train students on the principles and skills used for the comprehensive health assessment of individual adults, the families and communities.

Equipment and Instruments

  • Lung and Heart Sounds Auscultation Trainer Simulator
  • Mannequins
  • Models: Body Basic Teaching Torso, Skull Reproduction, and Joint Sets
  • Tools: Ophthalmoscopes, Otoscopes, Tuning Forks
  • Multimedia Items on History Taking and Performing Head to Toe Examination

Experiments, Skills and Procedures

  • Interviewing for Health History
  • Physical Assessment Techniques (Inspection, Percussion, Palpation, Auscultation)
  • Physical Examination (Skin, Hair, Nails, Chest and Lung, Heart, Abdomen, Nervous System, Circulatory System

Tests and Services

  • Screening Activities (Vsual Acquity)
  • Heart and Lung Auscultation
  • Chest Anatomical Landmarks.