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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6185
Tracking Number - 1777

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-05-05
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1. Date & Time Submitted: 2006-02-27
   
2. Department: Nursing
   
3. College: NR
   
4. Budget Account Number: 62100-000-0
   
5. Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
   
6. Phone: 9479229
   
7. Email: jkarshme@hsc.usf.edu
   
8. Prefix: NGR
   
9. Number: 6185
   
10. Full Title: Medical Laboratory Interpretation for the Advanced Practice Nu
    
11. Credit Hours: 1
    
12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
    
13. Is the course title variable?: N
    
14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
    
15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
    
16. Is this course repeatable?:
    
17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
    
18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Med Lab Inter for Adv Prac Nur
    
19. Course Online?: -
    
20. Percentage Online:
    
21. Grading Option: R - Regular
    
22. Prerequisites:
    
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24. Course Description: Interpretation of common medical laboratory results for the Advanced Practice Nurse with focus on the differential diagnosis.
    

25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To support nurse practitioner’s skills
    
26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This content is not in current curriculu
    
27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
    
28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Graduate degree in Nursing
    
29. Objectives: 1. Discuss and interpret basic laboratory results. 2. Identify normal and abnormal laboratory findings. 3. Apply findings to clinical situations to rule out differential diagnosis. 4. Discuss pre-operative clearance for the surgical patient. 5. Demonstrate working knowledge of the concepts of differential diagnosis in interpretation of reports.
    
30. Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss and interpret basic laboratory results.

    2. Identify normal and abnormal laboratory findings.

    3. Apply findings to clinical situations to rule out differential diagnosis.

    4. Discuss pre-operative clearance for the surgical patient.

    5. Demonstrate working knowledge of the concepts of differential diagnosis in interpretation of reports.
    

31. Major Topics: 1. Epidemiologic principles of Laboratory reporting

    2. Interpretation of Laboratory and other reports using concepts of differential diagnosis

    3. Hematology

    4. Electrolytes

    5. Coagulation

    6. Cardiac Enzymes and related cardiac

    7. Liver enzymes

    8. ABG/PFT interpretation

    9. Pre-operative evaluation and clearance
    

32. Textbooks: Pagana,K. D., and Pagana, T. J. (2004)Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference
    
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37. Policy on Make-up Work:
    
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