NURS6620
20 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course is designed to build on student knowledge and clinical skills in physical and mental health assessment. Students will further develop clinical diagnostic skills relevant to advanced health assessment and care planning. Students build on their knowledge of pathophysiology to inform on their clinical responses, differential diagnosis, and their ability to judiciously order and interpret diagnostics and develop the quality use of medications. The course further focuses on the development of the skills required to deliver holistic person-centred care in collaboration with the interprofessional team.This is a core course in the Master of Nurse Practitioner Program.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Trimester 3 - 2023.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Apply theories of diagnostic reasoning and health assessment in clinical practice
2. Conduct an advanced health assessment (general and focused, physical and mental), identifying variations from normal, considering all patient/client/consumer issues
3. Differentiate between normal trajectories of common health problems and variations from normal in comprehensive clinical assessment based on cues from the assessment
4. Demonstrate rapid assessment of unstable and complex health care problems through synthesis and prioritisation of historical and available data
5. Apply advanced knowledge of pathophysiologic processes to the assessment and management of patients with complex needs
6. Demonstrate the ability to make informed and person centred decisions about preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic responses and interventions (including referrals) that are based on sound clinical judgement and scientific evidence
7. Model effective holistic and collaborative practice in the context of the interprofessional team
8. Demonstrate justified decisions arising from the full comprehensive health assessment, including choice/use of diagnostics: pathology and medical imaging
Content
- Introduction to the course
- Extensive review of pathophysiology
- Advanced health assessment (physical and mental, history, pharmacology)
- Clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills
- Pathology and medical imaging to inform differential diagnosis
- Incorporating current evidence and clinical guidelines in assessment and care planning
- Holistic person centred practice
- Collaborative practice within an interprofessional team
- Case Presentation
Requisite
Students must be enrolled in Master of Nurse Practitioner [40158] or Master of Midwifery Studies [40143].
Assumed knowledge
Advanced level of knowledge of anatomy and physiology and recently revised pathophysiology
Assessment items
Case Study / Problem Based Learning: Powerpoint
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Part A - Health Assessment
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Part B - Nursing Therapeutics
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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