NURS 638 Applied Health Assessment for Advanced Practice Nursing
This course focuses on applying knowledge learned from NURS 616/616L Health Assessment for the Advance Practice Provider and associated lab course. Students must demonstrate the ability to perform clinically appropriate examination skills based on a variety of commonly encountered primary care complaints, including special populations and patients across the lifespan. Students will assess, analyze, and organize data gathered through health history taking and examination¿exhibit the ability to synthesize and present the patient case in preparation for starting Family Nurse Practitioner clinical rotations.
Prerequisites
2 Graduate credits
Effective May 7, 2025 to December 15, 2025
Learning outcomes
General
- Demonstrate advanced examination skills during objective structed clinical examinations (OSCE) for comprehensive and focused patients¿ examinations across the lifespan.
- Analyze information gathered during applied cases presenting illness, medical history, objective and subjective data and review of systems.
- Synthesize health history, review of system, examination findings post OSCE.
- Identify age-appropriate developmental assessments and screenings on infants, children, and adolescents.
- Determine the sequence of advance examinations techniques performed during focused applied case studies.
- Differentiate between normal and abnormal physical findings across the lifespan.
- Reflect post OSCE simulations to gain deeper understanding of patient cases.