Adv Health Assmnt & Clncl Rsng

Catalog description

This advanced health assessment course builds upon baccalaureate and professional practice physical assessment and history-taking knowledge and skills. It focuses on the skills of assessment necessary in advanced nursing practice. Content in this course builds upon and integrates the student's foundational knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. Emphasis will be placed on applying theoretical foundations as well as the development of advanced assessment skills in order for the student to perform a comprehensive health assessment across the lifespan. This course will also allow students to further develop skills such as: effective clinical interviewing; comprehensive and focused history-taking, clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis, disease risk factors, and health promotion strategies. The underlying approach to advanced health assessment utilizes a holistic view of clients as complex beings possessing physical, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual health needs, living as individuals within families and communities.