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NS5901 - Extended Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning for Nurse Practitioners 1
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2015 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
1 |
Administered by: |
College of Healthcare Sciences |
This subject aims to provide Nurse Practitioner students with the requisite knowledge
and skills to complete system-specific and comprehensive health histories and physical
examinations with an emphasis on clinical decision-making and diagnostic reasoning
skills necessary to provide competent and safe patient/client care. As such, it expands
the nurse's knowledge of cognitive processes and psychomotor skills needed for comprehensive
assessment of patients/clients across the lifespan required for an advanced and extended
scope of practice. Techniques and processes of performing a physical, mental, developmental
and nutritional assessment, obtaining a health history, performing and interpreting
selected laboratory diagnostic procedures, ordering and interpreting radiology and
recording findings are core components of the subject. The student NP will work closely
with their clinical supervisor with this subject in the workplace in presenting cases
and being assessed with their practice.
Learning Outcomes
- develop knowledge, skills and professional attributes required for safe and effective
practice as a Nurse Practitioner, by: comparing and contrasting selected frameworks
for diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making, pertaining to selected acute
and chronic conditions;
- assimilate developmental, bio-psycho-social and cultural perspectives with experiential
and practical knowledge for the conduct of comprehensive health assessments for both
well and ill individuals, across the lifespan, by: employing communication processes
that incorporate the diverse needs of individuals, when obtaining and integrating
the data from a comprehensive health history;
- performing a comprehensive and accurate physical examination of an individual, including
appropriate cultural, psychosocial, cognitive, genetic and developmental elements;
- demonstrating sound critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision
making skills in relation to clinical symptomatology, health assessment findings,
pathophysiology, and diagnostic tests in forming appropriate differential diagnoses
and diagnostic plans in clinical settings;
- synthesizing case-based knowledge in a comprehensive, developmentally appropriate
approach to both focussed and health maintenance assessments;
- communicating findings of the health history, the physical examination and diagnostic
techniques using accurate, concise and legally appropriate recording and reporting.
Availabilities
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Study Period 1,
External
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Census Date 26-Mar-2015 |
Coord/Lect: |
Assoc. Professor John Smithson. |
Method of Delivery: |
WWW - LearnJCU |
Assessment: |
end of semester exam (60%); tutorial attendance and participation (%); mini clinical examinations: one for each body system (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) (%); assignments (40%); clinical supervisor verification (cv required) (%). |
Restrictions: |
An enrolment quota applies to this offering.
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.