2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

NURS 5135 Advanced Health Assessment

This course focuses on building the professional nurses comprehensive holistic assessment knowledge and skills. Emphasis is placed on advanced health assessment techniques and data collection that promote diagnostic reasoning and comprehensive decision making to improve patient care. Core content includes normal versus abnormal findings, symptom/health problem assessment, disease prevention, genetics influence, and differential diagnosis to develop a management plan in adult patients with common and acute health problems. This course will include a clinical component.

Credits

4