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Health Assessment Study Tools

See the head-to-toe exam, one finding at a time. Every module has an animated walkthrough you can pause, slow down or have read aloud, and a Lab with an explorer, unlimited practice with hints and explained answers, a quick game and real-life cases. Everything runs in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone. No login, nothing graded.

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How to use this: open the walkthrough first and go at your own pace with the arrow keys or Next. Then open the Lab: play with the explorer, then practice in the trainer, using the hints and explained answers. Use the tools bar at the top of each page to pause the animations, slow them down, have the text read aloud, or get a written description of each picture.

Module 1 The nurse, professional practice and scope

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 1 WalkthroughWatch a nursing license take shape from the Nurse Practice Act and board of nursing, run the three-question scope test, sort tasks between UAP, LPN and RN with the five rights of delegation, see the standard of care, ethics, negligence, consent and restraint rules at the bedside, meet the four exam techniques, key vital sign ranges and skin-tone assessment, and follow a failing trend to an SBAR call and up the chain of command. Explorer + practiceModule 1 LabIn the Lab, you run a delegation desk that lights up the scope gates and five rights, practice with 50 questions at three levels, race the clock to sort who may do each task, and reason through six real-life scenarios.

Module 2 The nursing process and clinical judgment

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 2 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, animated scenes turn the ADPIE loop, show the hands moving through inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation (with the abdominal exception), light up adult and lifespan vital sign ranges and color changes across skin tones, cluster cues into PES nursing diagnoses, rank priorities, build SMART outcomes, delegate within the Five Rights, chart with numbers, and escalate a deteriorating patient in SBAR. In the Lab, you move a patient's vital signs, mentation and urine output on a live bedside monitor and watch the cues, MAP, pulse pressure, qSOFA and escalation decision respond, practice without limit at three levels, race the clock sorting data, tasks and findings, and reason through five fictional bedside cases. Explorer + practiceModule 2 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 3 Communication, documentation and handoff

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 3 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches 21 animated steps in which a conversation opens up or shuts down, an SBAR call builds block by block, vital sign trends cross the call-now line on a bedside monitor, a vague chart note turns into a precise one, and responsibility passes cleanly at an I-PASS and bedside handoff. In the Lab, they move vital signs on an escalation simulator that writes the SBAR call live, practice with 59 questions at three levels, race the clock sorting SBAR, I-PASS, delegation, therapeutic replies and safe abbreviations, and reason through five bedside scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 3 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 4 Safety, asepsis and infection prevention

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 4 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, animated scenes show identification checks matching up, rapid response trend lines crossing their triggers, a Morse fall score climbing past 45, restraint timing, the six-link chain of infection breaking link by link, infection signs across the lifespan, the five hand hygiene moments, PPE going on and coming off in order, droplets falling while airborne particles drift, negative and positive pressure rooms, a sterile field and the device bundles. In the Lab, learners set up an isolation room and watch each route of spread open or close and the air clear after discharge, practice with unlimited questions at three levels, race the clock to sequence PPE, handwashing, a sterile drape and a fall response, and reason through six bedside scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 4 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 5 Vital signs

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 5 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, learners watch 24 animated steps in which a live bedside monitor, a fever's rising set point, pulse sites, breathing pattern traces, an oxyhemoglobin curve, a deflating cuff with Korotkoff sounds and an orthostatic graph show how vital signs are measured, read against the lifespan and the patient's own baseline, charted and escalated with qSOFA and SBAR. Explorer + practiceModule 5 LabIn the Lab, they take blood pressures on a bench where cuff size, arm position, posture, deflation rate and an auscultatory gap move the reading, practice unlimited questions at three levels, race the clock sorting findings into expected, report or call now, and work through six real life patient scenarios.

Module 6 The health history and the interview

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 6 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, learners watch a nurse prepare the room, see questions open or shut a conversation, build a genogram, GTPAL and medication list piece by piece, analyze chest pain with OLDCARTS, run a review of systems, and escalate red flag statements with SBAR. In the Lab, they set up an interview room and watch how much a patient shares, practice history questions at three levels with fresh GTPAL problems, race the clock on therapeutic responses, OLDCARTS letters and stop signs, and reason through six real-life scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 6 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 7 General survey, pain and mental status

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 7 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches 22 animated steps turn a doorway first impression into chartable data: the four survey domains and tripod posture, the abdominal exception to the exam order, BMI and daily weights, pain measured with PQRSTU and the right scale, sedation rising before breathing slows on the POSS, the Glasgow Coma Scale and pupils, the mental status exam, and delirium, dementia and depression told apart with the CAM. Explorer + practiceModule 7 LabIn the Lab, they run a bedside neuro check that scores the GCS and pupils as the patient responds, practice at three levels in an unlimited trainer, race the clock sorting the three Ds, and reason through six real life cases from opioid sedation to a positive suicide screen.

Module 8 Skin, hair and nails

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 8 WalkthroughWatch a slice of skin reveal its layers and glands, follow a head to toe route under tangential light, time turgor and capillary refill, grade edema, read pallor, cyanosis, jaundice and erythema across skin tones, name lesions and press the red, check hair and nails for clubbing and other signs, stage pressure injuries with the Braden Scale, and chart and escalate with SBAR. Explorer + practiceModule 8 LabIn the Lab, you build lesions and press them with a glass slide, practice with over 70 items at three levels plus generated Beau line, edema, Braden and lesion items, race the clock to stage pressure injuries, and reason through five real life scenarios.

Module 9 Head, neck, eyes, ears, nose and throat

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 9 WalkthroughWatch the exam order and its abdominal exception, a forehead-spared versus Bell palsy face, the ten cervical node chains light up in order, a reactive node beside a hard fixed one, the thyroid rising with a swallow and a trachea pushed or pulled off midline, Snellen fractions, visual fields, pupils constricting in millimeters, the cardinal fields of gaze, the red reflex and eye emergencies, pinna traction and tympanic membrane findings, Weber and Rinne, the nose, the oral cancer check, tonsils growing from 1+ to 4+, the airway stop rule, lifespan numbers and fontanels, color change across skin tones, precise charting, a post-thyroidectomy SBAR call and delegation. Explorer + practiceModule 9 LabIn the Lab, you dial conductive and sensorineural loss into each ear on a hearing bench and watch the whisper, Weber and Rinne respond, practice with 51 questions at three levels, race the clock to decide whether findings are charted, reported or escalated, and reason through six real-life scenarios.

Module 10 Thorax and lungs

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 10 WalkthroughFind the sternal angle and C7 by touch, watch the lobes and fissures breathe under the front, side and back of the chest, and follow the exam in its fixed order through respiratory rates by age, the oxyhemoglobin curve, chest shape, work of breathing and breathing patterns, tracheal position and expansion, fremitus, the five percussion tones and diaphragmatic excursion, normal and adventitious breath sounds, voice sounds, red flags, lifespan and skin-tone variation, charting, delegation and the SBAR call. Explorer + practiceModule 10 LabIn the Lab, you examine a chest yourself with five tools across eight conditions and solve mystery cases, practice with 49 questions at three levels, race the clock to name breath sounds, percussion tones and red flags, and reason through six bedside scenarios.

Module 11 Heart and peripheral vascular system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 11 WalkthroughWatch blood flow through the chambers and valves, see valve closure make S1 and S2, find the five listening areas, measure the jugular venous pressure, hear S3, S4 and the classic murmurs, grade pulses and pitting edema, work out an ankle-brachial index, tell arterial from venous disease, and follow the six Ps, DVT and red flags to an SBAR call. Explorer + practiceModule 11 LabIn the Lab, you raise the head of the bed and add or remove fluid to watch the neck veins, heart sounds, lungs, weight and ankles respond, practice with more than 40 questions plus generated ABI, pulse deficit, pulse pressure, orthostatic and JVP problems at three levels, race the clock to sort findings, and reason through five bedside scenarios.

Module 12 Abdomen, nutrition and elimination

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 12 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches 23 animated steps that map organs to the quadrants, move auscultation ahead of percussion and palpation, track bowel sounds through an obstruction, tap out a liver span and shifting dullness, compare voluntary and involuntary guarding, calculate BMI and weight loss, verify a feeding tube, read Bristol stool types, stomas and urine output, and escalate red flags in SBAR. In the Lab, they examine six fictional patients on an exam bench that checks their order and safety, practice nutrition and elimination questions and calculations at three levels, race the clock to place findings in the right quadrant, and reason through five real life scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 12 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 13 Musculoskeletal and neurologic systems

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 13 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, animated scenes show strength graded 0 to 5, joints swinging through their degrees, a scoliosis rib hump, a Timed Up and Go stopwatch, capillary refill in different skin tones, a GCS built part by part, cranial nerves lighting in order, pronator drift, dermatomes, reflexes from 0 to 4+ with clonus, and red flags such as compartment pressure climbing and Cushing triad on a monitor. In the Lab, learners run a neuro check on a simulated patient and watch the GCS, pupils and vital signs respond, practice with unlimited questions at three levels, race the clock to sort findings, and reason through five bedside scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 13 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 14 Hygiene, mobility, skin integrity and core skills

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 14 WalkthroughWatch a bed bath become a head-to-toe skin survey, see what bed rest does to each body system, follow orthostatic checks, lifts, fall screening and restraint rules, stage pressure injuries by the deepest visible tissue in every skin tone, and step through medication checks, catheter care, the abdominal exam order and SBAR escalation. In the Lab, you set up a bed and watch pressure and shear build on a body map, practice with unlimited questions and Braden, Morse, urine output and orthostatic number problems at three levels, race the clock staging pressure injuries, and reason through six fictional patient scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 14 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.