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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 14, 2025  
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

NURS 6830 - Advanced Physical and Health Assessment for the Advanced Practice Nurse

Hours: 3
Builds on basic physical assessment concepts to include episodic, focused, and comprehensive health assessments for individuals across the lifespan. Integrates concepts of genetics/genomics, culture, and lifestyles in identification of risk factors. Focuses on therapeutic communication in a caring framework with individuals and families to assemble a health assessment data base, including family, psycho-social, diagnostic, and physical findings. Emphasis is on critically analyzing the data in order to determine differential diagnoses and establishing an accurate assessment of the health status.