College Catalog 2024-2025

NURS 5715 Advanced Health Assessment for Nurse Anesthesia

The purpose of this course is to develop advanced health and physical assessment skills, allowing for a thorough understanding of the client and determination of appropriate and effective care in the critical care setting.  Advanced assessment will include attention to physical, psychological, psychosocial and pathologic variations of the client, with integration of all findings into a comprehensive health assessment and plan of care using critical thinking and decision making skills.

Credits

3

Theory Credit Hours

2

Clinical Credit Hours

1

Prerequisite

Undergraduate Health Assessment

Corequisite

NURS 5101 Advanced Pathophysiology, NURS 5110 Pharmacotherapeutics