ABSN Health Assessment Nurs 304

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Publisher

nasimbg123

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Oct 2025

Latest episode

10 May 2026

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 May 2026

   Final Pharm Test

   These sources comprise a comprehensive study guide and lecture transcript designed to prepare nursing students for a pharmacology final exam. The material organizes over forty specific medications into twenty-two distinct categories, such as antiemetics, antibacterials, and psychotropics. Each section highlights critical nursing priorities, including drug mechanisms, life-threatening adverse effects, and essential patient education points. Readers are instructed on how to distinguish between look-alike drug classes and recognize high-yield clinical scenarios, such as contraindications during pregnancy or organ toxicity. Special emphasis is placed on safety precautions, identifying urgent physical findings like bronchospasm, and understanding proper administration timing. Ultimately, the text serves as a strategic blueprint to help students master complex drug interactions and clinical decision-making for patient care.

2. 

   11 Mar 2026

   Pharm Test Audio

   These educational materials provide a comprehensive pharmacology review designed to prepare students for clinical exams by focusing on drug classifications and patient safety. The sources detail specific medication protocols for various conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, respiratory disorders, and diabetes management. Key concepts emphasize pharmacokinetics, such as the role of the CYP2D6 enzyme in activating drugs like tamoxifen and the importance of first-pass metabolism. Significant attention is given to emergency priorities, specifically monitoring for anaphylaxis and managing high-risk drugs like digoxin and adenosine. Additionally, the materials highlight contraindications and adverse effects, such as the risks of using specific antibiotics during pregnancy or the danger of rebound hypertension when stopping beta blockers abruptly. Overall, the review serves as a guide for identifying therapeutic effects and essential nursing interventions within diverse clinical scenarios.

3. 

   20 Nov 2025

   Substance Abuse

   The source material provides a comprehensive overview of substance use assessment and abuse across different populations and contexts. It emphasizes that alcohol is the most abused psychoactive drug in the U.S., detailing its health consequences, dose-related risks, and interaction with medications. The text also covers the definition and serious consequences of illicit drug use and addresses the national crisis of prescription drug abuse and opioid-related deaths, citing factors like increased pain medication prescriptions and misleading marketing. Furthermore, the information outlines diagnostic criteria using the DSM-V, discusses the risks associated with substance use for diverse groups such as adolescents, pregnant women, older adults, and the SGM community, and presents various screening tools like AUDIT, TWEAK, and SMAST-G. Finally, it addresses objective data collection using laboratory tests and the CIWA scale, along with defining key terms related to substance abuse and providing ethical guidance for healthcare providers.

4. 

   13 Nov 2025

   Chapter 12 &22 Abdomen and Nutrition

   These sources provide comprehensive material for nursing assessment across two major body systems: Nutrition and the Abdomen. The nutrition content focuses heavily on developmental considerations for different age groups, defining nutritional statuses (optimal, under, over), identifying risk factors for malnutrition, and detailing various assessment methods such as dietary recall, anthropometrics (BMI, waist-to-hip ratio), and clinical signs of deficiency. The abdominal assessment chapters outline the internal anatomy of the four abdominal quadrants, the correct physical examination sequence (inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation), and developmental variations and changes across the lifespan, including common abdominal findings and signs suggestive of serious conditions like appendicitis, ascites, or aneurysm. Both sets of material are structured using multiple-choice questions and detailed rationales, along with supporting lecture/text excerpts, indicating their use for educational and clinical training purposes.

5. 

   4 Nov 2025

   Chapter 19 Thorax and Lungs

   These sources provide an extensive overview of the Thorax and Lungs chapter, focusing heavily on respiratory anatomy, physiology, and physical assessment techniques. One document offers concentrated study tips and key concepts, highlighting crucial clinical facts like why aspiration pneumonia is more common on the right side and the importance of CO2 in controlling respiration. The main document structures the content into sections covering surface landmarks, the mechanics of breathing, developmental considerations across the lifespan, and detailed instructions for performing a physical examination (inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation) including identifying normal and abnormal findings such as adventitious sounds and altered chest configurations. A third source comprises multiple-choice questions and an answer key to test knowledge on landmark identification, respiratory mechanics, and the expected clinical findings associated with various common respiratory conditions like asthma, COPD, and pneumonia.

6. 

   28 Oct 2025

   Domestic and Family Violence Assessment: Chapter 7

   The sources provide an overview of domestic and family violence across various populations, including intimate partner violence (IPV), child abuse and neglect, and older adult abuse and neglect. They function primarily as a test bank and chapter overview for health care professionals, focusing on the assessment, documentation, and mandatory reporting requirements related to suspected abuse. Key topics include the importance of universal screening for IPV, recognizing different forms and definitions of abuse (such as physical violence, neglect, and financial exploitation), and understanding the critical role of non-biased, verbatim documentation and photographic evidence when recording injuries. Furthermore, the material addresses human trafficking as a form of exploitation and highlights the utility of specific screening tools like the Abuse Assessment Screen and the Danger Assessment (DA) tool for evaluating homicide risk.

7. 

   21 Oct 2025

   Week 9 (Chapter 20-21)

   These sources provide comprehensive overviews of the cardiovascular system and the peripheral vascular and lymphatic systems, respectively. The first source focuses on the heart and neck vessels, explaining the anatomy, blood flow direction, cardiac cycle, heart sounds, and factors like conduction and cardiac output, while also covering developmental variations and risk factors for heart disease. The second source describes the structure and function of arteries, veins, and lymphatics, detailing their roles in fluid transport and immune defense, examining common conditions like peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and outlining subjective and objective assessment techniques for both systems, including calculating the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI). Both texts emphasize health promotion and specific considerations for different populations, such as pregnant women and aging adults.

8. 

   21 Oct 2025

   Health Assessment Week 7 (14-17)

   These source excerpts offer a detailed overview of the anatomy, physiology, and physical examination techniques for four interconnected body regions: the Head, Face, and Neck; the Eyes; the Ears; and the Nose, Mouth, and Throat. Each chapter systematically reviews structure and function, discusses developmental variations across the lifespan (infants, children, pregnant women, and aging adults), and addresses relevant genetic and environmental factors. Crucially, they outline the steps for gathering subjective data through health history questions and provide comprehensive guides for objective physical examination and identifying abnormal findings related to pathology and chronic illness in each area.

9. 

   8 Oct 2025

   Chapter 25-27 (week 6)

   The source materials offer a comprehensive overview of the female genitourinary system, covering its anatomy and physiology through external and internal structures. Much of the text is dedicated to developmental competence across the lifespan, discussing changes in infants, adolescents, pregnant women, and aging women, alongside considerations for sexual identity and genetic factors like cervical cancer disparities. The sources also extensively detail the proper collection of subjective data through various history questions regarding menstrual cycles, obstetrics, menopause, urinary symptoms, and sexual activity, concluding with a summary checklist for the physical examination; additionally, a separate source provides scattered focus points for discussion related to male anatomy, common health issues like hernias and prostate conditions, and clinical notes such as medication effects and ideal patient positioning for examinations.

10. 

    2 Oct 2025

    Mental Status and Cranial Nerve Assessment (Week 5)

    The provided sources offer a comprehensive overview of the neurologic system and mental status assessment, detailing their structure, function, and clinical evaluation. The texts explain that mental status encompasses emotional and cognitive functioning, which can be affected by various factors and assessed through behaviors like consciousness, language, and memory. The sources also thoroughly describe the central and peripheral nervous systems, including the cerebral cortex, its lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital), and subcortical structures like the basal ganglia and brainstem. A significant portion of the material focuses on the twelve cranial nerves (CN I through CN XII), outlining their specific sensory and motor functions and how their assessment helps determine the level of consciousness and function of the cerebral cortex and brainstem. Finally, the sources cover developmental competence across the lifespan, various neurologic pathways and reflexes (such as deep tendon reflexes), and common neurologic abnormalities and disorders, including stroke and mental illnesses.

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