NURS 525 - Advanced Health Assessment

Credit Hours: 3

This advanced health assessment course provides students with essential holistic assessment and advanced nursing diagnostic skill to work with the individual in context of the family, community and environment. The assessment process includes a comprehensive history and identification of patterns in all domains of health including physical / pathophysiologic, emotional, mental, spiritual, energetic, social / relational, and cultural. Emphasis is placed on developing a thorough understanding of the individual, differentiating normal and abnormal findings to determine a differential diagnosis and synthesizing assessed health patterns to plan and evaluate care. The course includes classroom and 50 hours of clinical/lab components.