554a. Advanced Health Assessment across the Life Span. 3.4–3.9 credit hours. This course is designed to cover the comprehensive history-taking and advanced physical examination requisite of advanced nursing practice/midwifery. Through lecture and laboratory sessions, students learn evidence-based assessment techniques, culturally responsive assessment data collection, application of appropriate technology in health assessment and practice comprehensive health histories and physical examinations on each other and/or in the simulation laboratory. Normal and abnormal variations across the life span are presented. Required for students during the first year of specialization in the Adult, Family, Gerontological, and Women’s Health Primary Care, Psychiatric– Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwifery, Adult Advanced Practice Nursing, and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner programs. L. Neal-Boylan.
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