Advanced Health Assessment in Adult/Gerontology Acute Care

Graduate / Professional

This course concentrates on developing a systematic approach to assessing patients’ healthcare needs. Patient history taking, physical examination, interpretation of diagnostic studies and advanced hemodynamic monitoring, differential diagnoses, documentation, communication, and simulation scenarios form the basis for this clinical/seminar course. Required of all adult/gerontology acute care nurse practitioner students in the first year of specialization. Prerequisites: NURS 5040 and NURS 5041 ; or NURS 6000 . 3 Course cr HTBA