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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6042
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2004-03-18
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-06-13
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 6201-000-20
- Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
- Phone: (813)9749229
- Email: jkarshme@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6042
- Full Title: Advanced Health Assessment for the Older Adult
- Credit Hours: 1
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Adv Hlth Assm Older Adult
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Course Description: Focus on advanced history and physical examination skills with older adults.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Specialty content required for graduates to be eligible for certification
- 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? Required course in Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Concentration
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Will be offered as special topics in Fall 2003
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Nurse Practitioner and PhD
- Objectives: 1. Synthesize the health history, functional and physical assessment of older adults to identify present and potential health problems.
2. Systematically integrate pertinent findings from the health history and physical examination in both written and oral forms.
3. Demonstrate competency in the various data collection techniques and instruments related to history taking and physical examination.
4. Develop differential diagnostic skills of present and potential health problems for older adults
5. Demonstrate the use of laboratory and diagnostic tests used in treatment of older adults.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Synthesize the health history, functional and physical assessment of older adults to identify present and potential health problems.
2. Systematically integrate pertinent findings from the health history and physical examination in both written and oral forms.
3. Demonstrate competency in the various data collection techniques and instruments related to history taking and physical examination.
4. Develop differential diagnostic skills of present and potential health problems for older adults
5. Demonstrate the use of laboratory and diagnostic tests used in treatment of older adults.
- Major Topics: Topical Outline
Introduction to Geriatric Assessment
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Skin Assessment
Conditions that commonly occur as part of aging
Older Eye Assessment
Ear, Nose and Throat
Respiratory Assessment
Cardiac Assessment
Abdominal Assessment
Male/Female Genitalia
Musculoskeletal Assessment
Neurological Assessment
Geriatric Syndromes
- Textbooks: Bickley, L., 1999. Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking, 8th ed. Philadelphia, Lippincott.
Adelman, A., & Daly, M (2001) 20 Common Problems in Geriatrics New York: McGraw Hill.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.