NUR 509/510 Advanced Assessment and Diagnosis

This course builds upon undergraduate physical assessment content. NUR509 provides the core content for advanced assessment and diagnosis of patients across the lifespan that will be reinforced in all clinical courses. Physiologic and pathophysiologic principles are required to enable the student to develop and utilize advanced skills in obtaining a comprehensive health history, physical examination, and to understand the psychosocial variation of the individual, the family, and the community of origin. Diagnostic reasoning skills and differential diagnostic processes are emphasized as complex and multisystem problems are identified. Students have a weekly simulated laboratory and clinical experience to integrate this knowledge with particular patients within health care settings. (4 credits: 3 theory hours and 1 clinical hour; 56 clinical hours)