NG 504 - Graduate Comprehensive Health Assessment

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This course focuses on assessment techniques as students explore the physical, psychosocial, spiritual, environmental, and cultural dimensions of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities at various developmental transitions. The lab experience provides students the opportunity for supervised practice of assessment skills learned in lecture. The course also explores nursing practice and the role and responsibilities of the master’s prepared nurse in healthcare. Didactic content includes evidence-based information related to specific nursing assessment skills and interventions. Skills lab practice and performance provide the student with supervised practice and validation of skills in a laboratory setting. A clinical simulation practice component provides the opportunity for the student to apply learned concepts and skills within the simulated practice setting under supervision of faculty. The course also explores nursing practice and the role and responsibilities of the master’s prepared nurse in healthcare Success in the course is determined by didactic knowledge assessment which must be a C or better, and by clinical/lab performance component which is a Pass or Fail. OUTCOMES: 5, 7 Corequisite(s): NG 504L Note(s): Admission to Nursing Program required. Corequisite(s): NG 504L