Description
This course enhances advanced health assessment skills and diagnostic reasoning across the lifespan necessary for advanced nursing practice roles. Assessment goals and strategies are developed for application within primary and acute care settings. Students will complete 30 hours of clinical experiences, which will focus on history taking, physical exam, differential diagnoses, oral presentation of findings and clinical decision-making.
Instruction Modes
In-Person On-Campus
Grade Modes
Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)
Department(s)
College/School
School of Nursing
Start Term
Spring 2026 Semester
Free Form Requirements
Prerequisite(s): course
Objective
1. Utilize effective documentation, verbal and written communication, technology, and interpersonal skills in the assessment, decision making, and evaluation of health care across the lifespan.
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2. Apply knowledge and skills to integrate theory, evidence, clinical judgement, and research to improve health outcomes for patients across the lifespan.
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3. Identify systems issues, organization structures and practices integral in the assessment of patients across the lifespan aimed at improving health outcomes of patients and populations.
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4. Incorporate and synthesize theory, evidence, clinical judgement, research, and interprofessional perspectives necessary to assess and manage patients across the life span.
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5. Demonstrate advanced nursing practice using the findings of a holistic health history, and functional and risk assessments/screening tools, to formulate differential and final diagnoses and develop clinical management plans.
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6. Demonstrate leadership through effective communication skills and collaborative relationships with patients, families and interprofessional teams.
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7. Evaluate current practices and policies in health care that influence social justice and health equity across patient populations.
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8. Demonstrate skills in assessing patient's health and well being using a person centered approach to diagnose and create management plans that focus on health promotion, disease preventions and risk reduction across the lifespan.