Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning for Advanced Practice Nursing: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

Building upon previously acquired physical assessment and history taking skills, this course prepares graduate advanced practice nursing students to obtain a meaningful history and to integrate it with physical findings to develop a problem list. Interpretation of selected diagnostic tests and differential diagnoses. Analyze diagnostic reasoning models and apply to advanced practice nursing contexts. Prerequisites: ( NURS 5300 or NURS 5003) and ( NURS 5316 or NURS 5163) and ( NURS 5314 or NURS 5133). Co-requisites: NURS 5204 , NURS 5317 .