NURS 5200 Advanced Health Assessment/Diagnostic Reasoning
Prerequisite: Admission to MSN Program or Permission from MSN Graduate Program Coordinator
Co-requisite: NURS 5200L
The course is designed to assist students to refine history taking, psychosocial, cultural, interviewing and physical assessment skills acquired during their baccalaureate education. Content focuses on assessment of individuals throughout adulthood and into older adulthood with attention to common conditions encountered in acute care practice. Emphasis is placed on detailed health history taking including ethnic variations, and differentiation, interpretation, and documentation of normal and abnormal findings. Additional course content will incorporate interpreting diagnostic study results, and using clinical reasoning to formulate diagnoses and appropriate diagnostic codes. All students will perform physical assessments in laboratory and clinical settings. This course is non-transferable to baccalaureate programs.
Lecture Hours
3
Lab Hours
3