Lecturio’s
All-in-one Physical Assessment Online Course
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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.
Expert-made physical assessment cheat sheets help you learn faster and score higher.
Mastering a comprehensive physical assessment is a major milestone in a future nurse’s career. Our concise, downloadable cheat sheets help you retain the must-know points about complex nursing concepts reliably and efficiently. Download them, print them, take notes on them – and confidently walk into your exams and clinicals.
Close your heavy textbooks and learn at your own pace
And that’s not all. With Lecturio, you can apply your physical assessment for nursing knowledge by answering real exam practice questions that will help you retain everything you learned using quizzes and cheat sheets.
40+ Physical Assessment for Nursing Video Lessons
Short and concise video lessons offer downloadable slides and multilingual subtitles.
Exam Practice Questions for Every Subject
Our exam-simulating interface is designed to help you familiarize yourself with actual test situations.
140+ Questions for Better Recall
Our adaptive learning algorithm uses smart Spaced-Repetition quizzes to help you retain physical assessment information over the long term.
Lecturio’s Physical Assessment Course covers all relevant topics
for nursing students
Your top educators teach you everything you need to know about nursing physical assessments
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.
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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Nursing Assessment of the Abdominal Cavity
Overview of abdominal physical assessment, including normal and abnormal findings
How To Describe Dermatologic Lesions
An overview of how to describe skin lesions
Heart Sounds: Normal and Abnormal
An overview of normal and abnormal heart sounds, such as murmurs and clicks
Respiratory Assessment
No more racking your brain trying to remember how to describe the lung sounds you hear if you have this cheat sheet!
Head To Toe Assessment
Never forget which body system you need to examine next with this head to toe assessment summary!
Cranial Nerves
Overview of the 12 cranial nerves + powerful mnemonics to help remember them
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FAQs
What is physical assessment in nursing?
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.
What are the steps to complete a physical assessment?
The standard sequence of techniques of a physical assessment are:
- Inspection
- Palpation
- Percussion
- Auscultation
What does a physical assessment include?
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
Why physical assessments are important in nursing
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.
How does Lecturio's Physical Assessment course help me pass?
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.