Unit Code: NAP886

Unit Name: Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Nurse Practitioners

Description: This course is designed to enhance the student nurse practitioner\\\'s physical assessment proficiency, by focusing upon critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills. Students will learn to identify, collate, and incorporate appropriate diagnostic data, and analyse this evidence to arrive at a hypothesis that will lead to a further narrowing of differential diagnoses. Clinical diagnostics will be incorporated into the assessment process, and these will include laboratory and radiology diagnostics and a variety of cardiovascular monitoring techniques.

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Prerequisite: MER

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 40

Offered In: Semester 1