NUR 7580 - Advanced Health Assessment and Differential Diagnosis

Hours: 3

Advanced practice nurses must be skilled in methods of physical assessment and knowledgeable regarding selecting and interpreting diagnostic studies to assess health and diagnosis disease. This is an online course with a brief intensive for summative evaluation. This focus on this course is on the process of comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of acute and chronic conditions in patients across the lifespan. Emphasis is on physical assessment skills, risk assessment, and diagnostic reasoning. This course includes a weekend (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) on campus intensive for summative evaluation of physical assessment skills and mediation if required. Prerequisites: The FNP follows a specific sequence of classes described in the Program of Study. Students should have successfully completed IPE 7000, IPE 7050, NUR 7610, and NUR 7161.