Positives of health assessment:

1)Improve communication:

Health assessment course can help improve your communication with patients to tailor your
assessments. One common factor you may have seen in your patients is that not everyone
communicates well with their healthcare team. This impacts your ability to obtain a history and
physical, and it affects the patient's understanding of information that will help them make
appropriate health decisions. This course focuses on different cultural perspectives and health
literacy aspects to help you better individualize your care to improve patient outcomes.

2)Cultural Competence: 
As our nation becomes increasingly diverse, it is important for the healthcare industry as a whole to
become more aware of the cultural diversity in our patients. Cultural competence is the practice of
effectively communicating and interacting with people from different cultures, and knowing how to
incorporate their cultural backgrounds into a holistic care approach.

3)Health Literacy: 
The National Academy of Medicine  defines health literacy as "the degree to which individuals have
the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services." The level of
health literacy of your patient can significantly impact their ability to understand their health condition
and follow instructions.

4) health assessment course will also teach you about factors that impact health literacy and how
you can better identify risk factors. It will provide you with techniques to address potential barriers to
a good patient history, such as the impact of a patient's health literacy level on their ability to give an
accurate and complete health history.

Negatives of health assessment:

 Negatives of post rn health assessment subject is that it has a long course which is covered
in two semesters in Generic BS nursing while in post rn this health assessment is covered in
only one semester which is unable for the students to learn it deeply but students only learn
it superficially which is the drawbacks of post rn health assessment.