NURS 510 - Advanced Health Assessment: Didactic

3 Hour(s) Credit
Provides the didactic content as a basis for history-taking and physical examination skills necessary for an advanced practice nurse. Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills are used to analyze the history, physical examination and laboratory data in order to lay the foundation for an accurate assessment of the client and establish priorities of care. Physical, psychosocial, developmental, occupational and cultural assessment are considered as foundational to advanced practice nursing.
Three hours per week.
Prerequisites Admission to the master’s program or consent of instructor.
Corequisites NURS 749
Pre or Corequisites NURS 552.