NURS 870: Advanced Health Assessment

Description

Builds on participants’ skills and knowledge in the conduct of comprehensive and focused health assessment across the life span. Lectures introduce concepts, frameworks, and techniques integral to advanced health assessment skills. Required 5 days of onsite laboratory instruction at the U of S Saskatoon Campus will provide opportunities to practice comprehensive and focused health assessment and build on the health assessment skills needed for clinical practice as a Nurse Practitioner. This class includes 16 observational clinical hours as an introduction to the Nurse Practitioner role and the application of health assessment skills.

Credit units

.6

Term description

1(2S-1P)

College

Graduate Studies and Research

Department

Nursing (Dean's Office)

Prerequisite(s)

Admission to the Master of Nursing (M.N.) Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner MN-NP Option or PGDSC certificate program.

Note:

Students with credit for NURS 884.3 will not receive credit for this course. This course was labeled NURS 884.3 until 201305.