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Start the online physical assessment class taught by Samantha Rhea and Stephen Holt

This course will teach you how to comprehensively assess a client from head to toe. Top educators currently engaged in hands-on patient care lead you through all important aspects of physical assessment: from auscultating lung sounds to listening for cardiac murmurs, judging neurological status, and documenting your findings correctly.
High-quality videos demonstrate each step of the evaluation, giving concrete advice on what to look for, and the included practice questions help you retain the information over the long term.

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Our exam-simulating interface is designed to help you familiarize yourself with actual test situations.

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“Outstanding course. This really demystifies cardiac assessment allowing me to visualize what's going on with the heart, its valves and its chambers.”
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Nursing Student, Purdue University West Lafayette

Lecturio’s Physical Assessment Course covers all relevant topics

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Your top educators teach you everything you need to know about nursing physical assessments

Educator samantha rhea
Clinical Skills

Rogers State University

Samantha Rhea MSN, RN has been a nurse since 2008 and a nursing faculty since 2012. She has been recognized for clinical excellence as an interventional cardiology nurse and also lead a Joint Commission Accredited Stroke Center. Ms. Rhea is an award-winning expert in clinical teaching and continues to maintain a current clinical practice and teach at a University nursing program.

Stephen holt
Physical Assessment

Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Stephen Holt is the Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education in the Primary Care Program at the Yale School of Medicine in Washington, USA. He obtained his PhD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2004. Currently, he is Director of the Addiction Recovery Clinic and Co-Director of Clinician Educator Distinctions Pathway at Yale School of Medicine. He earned the Faculty Teacher of the Year award from the Yale Primary Care Residency Program in 2009 and 2017.

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Physical assessment is a comprehensive client assessment, focusing on the complete body from head to toe. In order to recognize early signs of life-threatening problems, nurses have to be experts in the art of physical assessment.

The standard sequence of techniques of a physical assessment are:

  • Inspection
  • Palpation
  • Percussion
  • Auscultation

Assessment includes overall physical, emotional and behavioral state of the patient.

Considerations include:

  • Vital signs: temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pain
  • Additional: weight, height, head circumference, blood sugar level (BSL)
  • Airway, Breathing, Circulation and Disability
  • Skin, hydration, nutrition
  • Focused assessment like arm and leg movement
  • Fine & gross motor skills
  • Sensory functions
  • Many more

Physical assessments help nurses to objectively evaluate the individual needs of patients. Physical assessments also identify possible barriers to care that may affect compliance and outcomes.

Lecturio’s Physical Assessment course prepares you for your examinations with high-quality learning videos with a watch time of over 5 hours, 140 Spaced-Repetition quiz questions and concise cheat sheets. All of your educators have practical clinical experience, explain even difficult topics understandably, and demonstrate each part of the physical assessment step-by-step.
Answering the NCLEX®-style questions prepares you to ace your exams from the start.