NURS 638L Applied Health Assessment for Advanced Practice Nursing Lab
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 December 16, 2025 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Demonstrate advanced examination and procedural 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 and physical exam.
- Synthesize health history, review of systems, physical 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.
- Reflect on post OSCE simulations to gain deeper understanding of patient cases.