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Course Title: NRSG 601 Advanced Health Assessment

Credits: 3 (2 lecture, 1 lab) 

Semester Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

Prerequisites: None

Degree: DNP, MN

 

AACN Core Competencies for Advanced-level Nursing Education: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

MRJCON DNP Program Learning Outcome: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

 

MRJCON NM Option Program Learning Outcomes:

  1. Integrate foundational knowledge from the basic and applied sciences into clinical, evidenced-based midwifery practice. (AACN Domain: 1, 4, 5, 8).
  2. Demonstrate midwifery knowledge, skills, and abilities when providing safe, ethical care during the pre-conception, antepartum, intrapartum, post-partum, and neonatal periods and when providing common primary and gynecologic care. (AACN Domains: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10).
  3. Integrate knowledge of social determinants of health when providing care and advocating for socially just and economically viable health policies for childbearing families and households. (AACN Domains: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10).

 

Course Description:

This graduate nursing course focuses on advanced health assessment of individuals. Course content will address documenting and validating information about the health status of the client, analyzing and synthesizing the information, and making clinical decisions about health. It includes assessment of normal and abnormal physiological and psychosocial processes relevant to gender and cultures across the lifespan.  

 

Catalog Description:

This course focuses on advanced health assessment of individuals. Course content includes documenting, validating, analyzing, and synthesizing information about health status; making clinical decisions about health; and assessing physiological and psychosocial processes relevant to gender and cultures across the lifespan.  

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course the student will be able to:

  1. Synthesize therapeutic communication, sound critical thinking, and clinical decision making throughout the assessment process.
  2. Obtain and accurately document comprehensive and appropriate health history for clients across the lifespan.
  3. Perform, analyze, and accurately document appropriate comprehensive or symptom-focused physical examinations on clients of all ages.
  4. Perform a risk assessment of the individual, including lifestyle, family and genetic history, and other risk factors.
  5. Analyze and synthesize information for clients of all ages, relating assessment findings to underlying pathology or physiologic changes.

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes:                      

  1. Students perform a subjective and objective assessment on 6 patients using I-Human, a virtual patient platform. [CLO2, CLO3]
  2. Students write 6 episodic SOAP notes based on their six I-Human patients. They write one comprehensive history and physical (H&P) on a volunteer patient. [CLO1, CLO4, CLO5]
  3. Students, in assigned groups of four, write a case study discussion. Each student is assigned to a different role – History of Present Illness and Review of Systems, Physical Assessment, Assessment, Plan – and given specific aspects of the patient case. After submission of all initial posts, students engage in discussion and critique each other’s’ work. [CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4, CLO5]

AACN Competencies [AACN Essentials, 2021]

This course introduces:

1.1b Apply knowledge of nursing science that develops a foundation for nursing practice.

1.2g Apply a systematic and defendable approach to nursing practice decisions.

2.3b Obtain a complete and accurate history in a systematic manner.

2.3c Perform a clinically relevant, holistic health assessment.

3.2e Challenge biases and barriers that impact population health outcomes.

 

This course develops:

1.3a Demonstrate clinical reasoning

1.3d Integrate foundational and advanced specialty knowledge into clinical reasoning.

2.3h Demonstrate that one’s practice is informed by a comprehensive assessment appropriate to the functional area of advanced nursing practice.

2.3f Apply nursing knowledge to gain a holistic perspective of the person, family, community, and population.

2.3g Communicate findings of a comprehensive assessment.

2.4b Create a list of problems/health concerns.

 

This course advances:

2.3a Create an environment during assessment that promotes a dynamic interactive experience.

2.3f Apply nursing knowledge to gain a holistic perspective of the person, family, community, and population.

2.3g Communicate findings of a comprehensive assessment.

 

Curricular Threads addressed in this course: [note all the apply]

Communication

Clinical Judgment

Mental Health

 

Recommended Content:

  • How to take a good history of present illness, head to toe pertinent assessment, how to present to a preceptor or another provider/specialist, SOAP note writing, billing/coding, problem focused visits
  • Wellness visits
  • Age-specific pediatrics potentially using bright futures
  • Adult woman
  • Adult male
  • Medicare wellness visit
  • Sports physical using MHSA form (Montana High School Association)

 

Recommended Clinical Experiences/Sites: NA

 

 

Approved by GAAC: 11/3/2023

Approved by Faculty: 11/13/23