Advanced Practice in Acute Care I Diagnostic Reasoning

3.5 Credits.

This is the second of five didactic specialty courses for the Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) student. This course initiates the development of diagnostic reasoning and clinical problem-solving capabilities while identifying acute care associated illnesses and disease entities with increasing severity and complexity. Content focuses on integrating pathophysiology, comprehensive assessment data, differential diagnoses while discussing a management and evaluation plan considering age, gender, sexuality, and social determinants of health within the scope of AG-ACNP practice.