Advanced Health Assessment and Differential Diagnosis Across the Lifespan

Catalog description

Provides opportunity to gain advanced health assessment skills essential for diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making across the lifespan. Builds on knowledge of anatomy and physiology to discriminate between normal and abnormal physical and psychological states. Emphasis is placed on accurately collecting, analyzing, and interpreting patient/client data to guide evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention, and disease management. Directed learning to achieve life-span assessment skills is accomplished through use of age specific modular content and learning activities. Simulation Description: Students use virtual patients to apply a systematic approach to diagnostic reasoning, treatment plan development, patient-family education, and follow-up evaluation plans. No clinical hours will be required. Prerequisites: Admission to the DNP Program or Post-graduate PMHNP Certificate Program or consent of the instructor; NU 820 Advanced Pathophysiology