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This Health Assessment in Nursing textbook is an open educational resource with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license developed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It is aligned with the Harrisburg Area Community College's nursing curriculum for the Physical Assessment course NURS142 that describes techniques for obtaining a complete health history and performing a basic physical assessment using a body systems approach.

This textbook has also been uploaded to LibreTexts (https://libretexts.org/) for easy remixing by faculty. The project is supported by a grant from the HACC Foundation to create a free, open source nursing textbook for NURS142. This project demonstrates the mission of the HACC Open Education Resources Committee in that it fosters inclusivity, increased learning, retention, and completion, and furthers the OER initiative at HACC by training and supporting faculty in the adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER for their courses. The committee’s mission is closely aligned with Commitment 2 of the college’s Strategic Plan.

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Attributions

Some of the content in this textbook was adapted from the following open educational resources or materials available in the public domain. For specific citation and attribution details, please refer to the footnotes at the bottom of each page of the book.

Nursing Pharmacology by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Nursing Fundamentals by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Anatomy & Physiology by OpenStax is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology/pages/1-introduction
Clinical Procedures for Safer Care by British Columbia Institute of Technology is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment by Lapum, St-Amant, Hughes, Petrie, Morrell, and Mistry is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Human Development Life Span by Overstreet is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
StatPearls by StatPearls Publishing is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan – 1st Canadian Edition by Ryerson University is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Anatomy and Physiology by Boundless is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian Edition by Lapum, St-Amant, Hughes, Tan, Bogdan, Dimaranan, Frantzke, and Savicevic is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Content that is not taken from the above OER or public domain should include the following attribution statement:

Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2021). Open RN Nursing Skills by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0.