Background: It has been nearly a decade since findings revealed that a sample of US
nurses routinely used only 30 physical assessment techniques in clinical practice. In a time …

Background Physical assessment skills are taught in pre-registration nursing programs to
equip nurses with the competencies to provide holistic nursing care. However, only a …

Review objective: This review seeks to establish the current state of knowledge regarding
physical assessment skills taught in nursing programs globally. It aims to explore the …

BACKGROUND Physical assessment skills are key components of nursing practice. On
average, nurses perform a head-to-toe assessment 4 times during a shift. The frequency and …

The purpose of this study was to investigate physical assessment skills taught in
undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs and the physical assessment skills used by …

Objective: This scoping review sought to establish the current state of knowledge regarding
physical assessment skills taught globally in undergraduate nursing curricula. Explicitly, the …

There is debate around the scope of physical assessment skills that should be taught in
undergraduate nursing programs. Yet this debate is largely uninformed by evidence on what …

PROBLEM. Physical assessment skills are a mainstay of the nursing process and are taught
to pre‐licensure learners. Little research has been conducted on the skills that are actually …

Because content saturation is a growing concern, as reflected in the nursing literature, the
content taught in undergraduate nursing curricula should be critically examined. The …

Although considered an essential nursing skill, systematic physical assessment is rarely
visible in everyday practice. Some nurses question whether systematic physical assessment …