NUR 650 - Advanced Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis for Advanced Nursing Practice

Credit(s): 3

This course will prepare the family nurse practitioner student to evaluate and critically analyze complex patient health assessment data to determine appropriate differential diagnosis for common health disorders across the lifespan. The course explores the comprehensive physical and psychological assessment of signs, symptoms and pathophysiological changes of the patient across the lifespan from a holistic nursing perspective considering cultural, ethnic, social, family and community influence. The focus of the course is to develop diagnostic reasoning skills through analysis of physical assessment findings, present and past histories, and diagnostic studies that contribute to the formulation of differential diagnoses of major health problems.