By
Shelly Philip LaForest, MN, RN, Professor
Michelle Hughes, MEd, RN, Professor
Dr. Lisa Seto Nielsen, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
Dr. Nadia Prendergast, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor
Maggie MacEachern, BA, MBA student
Diane MacEachern, MScN, NP-PHC, Professor
Raquel Lashley-Trambulo, MN(c), BScN, RN, Professional Practice and Simulation Coordinator
Dr. Erin Ziegler, PhD, NP-PHC, Assistant Professor
Michelle Simpson, MScN, RN
Safiyya LaForest, BSc student
Dr. Jennifer Lapum, PhD, RN, Professor

This book is best viewed via the online, Pressbooks format so that you can view the videos and interactive activities. However, a PDF format is made available.

“Inclusive Approach to Anthropometric Body Measurement Assessments” is an open educational resource (OER) created for undergraduate nursing students at the introductory level. The resource introduces students to body measurements, but does so in an inclusive manner. This resource is a unique contribution to nursing education as content is theoretically informed by an inclusive approach to assessment that incorporates culturally-responsive techniques related to race/ethnicity, gender/sex/sexual orientation, body sizes/types, and ability/disability. It is part of the first health assessment resource that is informed by clinical judgment with the goal to facilitate students’ clinical decision making and ability to prioritize care by recognizing and acting on cues and signs of clinical deterioration. Interactive clinical judgment activities and formative assessments to evaluate a student’s learning are integrated throughout the resource. The integration of clinical judgment throughout this resource will support students’ capacity to enhance patient safety and equitable health outcomes as well as their success in writing national nursing exams to become licensed to work as a Nurse.

This OER builds on existing open resources specific to health assessment including:

Physical examination techniques: A nurse’s guide: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/ippa/

Vital sign measurement across the lifespan: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/vitalsign2nd/

Part I: Introduction to Health Assessment for the Nursing Professional: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/assessmentnursing/

Part II: Introduction to Health Assessment for the Nursing Professional can be found at: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/assessmentnursing2/

Introduction to communication in nursing: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/communicationnursing/

Documentation in nursing: 1st Canadian edition: https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/documentation/

The complete subjective health assessment: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/healthassessment/

All of the listed OER are published under an open license. Thus, you can use them for free or modify them to suit your student and course needs with appropriate attribution. 

Acknowledgments

Illustrator: Tayiba Rahman

Licensing

This resource is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommerical.

Accessibility

This book was designed with accessibility in mind so that it can be accessed by the widest possible audience, including those who use assistive technologies. The web version of this book has been designed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, level AA. While we aim to ensure that this book is as accessible as possible, we may not always get it right. There may be some supplementary third-party materials, or content not created by the authors of this book, which are not fully accessible.

If you are having problems accessing any content within the book, please contact: Shelly Philip LaForest at slaforest@centennialcollege.ca or Dr. Jennifer Lapum at jlapum@torontomu.ca  Please let us know which page you are having difficulty with and include which browser, operating system, and assistive technology you are using.