Course Detail
Units:
2.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: NURS 6897, 6396, 6107 or Instructor's consent.
Description
This is an advanced diagnostic reasoning class that will focus on the skills nurse practitioners need to recognize unusual presentations of usual illnesses and usual presentations of unusual illnesses, a zebra. The intended audience is graduate level nurse practitioner students (family, adult, acute care, woman's health and gerontology) who have successfully completed all of the coursework through N6897, N6396, and N6107. At this point in the curriculum, they have demonstrated skills in assessment, diagnoses, differential diagnosis, ordering and interpretation of laboratory and other diagnostic tests and arriving at a given diagnosis with rationale.