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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7209
Tracking Number - 2152
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Campus:
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: GC approved 10/28/08; SCNS approved 8/1/09; assigned number 7209
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2008-09-16
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HSC-006201-10000
- Contact Person: Mary Webb
- Phone: x9133
- Email: mwebb@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7209
- Full Title: Diagnostic Reasoning
- Credit Hours: 3
- 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): Diagnostic Reasoning
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online:
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Admission ot DNP degree program
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course provides practice in analyzing data and making effective clinical decisions. Students will practice diagnostic reasoning using the health history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests to create a prioritized differential diagnosis.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To obtain a permanent number.
- 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 the DNP degree
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes at least three times.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. or DNP
- Objectives: 1. Discuss the role of the clinician in implementing and evaluating clinical guidelines and translational research
2. Integrate professional experience, research knowledge and methods to formulate and evaluate practice interventions.
3. Utilize patient-centered, evidence-based, and quality indicators to compare and contrast diagnostic and therapeutic health services.
4. Demonstrate competency in the selection of statistical methods utilized for advanced clinical decision making
5. Integrate professional experience, research, practice guidelines, and statistical methods in the development of prioritized differential diagnoses.
6. Develop the clinical leadership role through clinical teaching strategies for colleagues and patients
7. Contrast current and classic theories for the evaluation of clinical decision making.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the role of the clinician in implementing and evaluating clinical guidelines and translational research
2. Integrate professional experience, research knowledge and methods to formulate and evaluate practice interventions.
3. Utilize patient-centered, evidence-based, and quality indicators to compare and contrast diagnostic and therapeutic health services.
4. Demonstrate competency in the selection of statistical methods utilized for advanced clinical decision making
5. Integrate professional experience, research, practice guidelines, and statistical methods in the development of prioritized differential diagnoses.
6. Develop the clinical leadership role through clinical teaching strategies for colleagues and patients
7. Contrast current and classic theories for the evaluation of clinical decision making.
- Major Topics: Introduction
Theoretical Models of the Diagnostic Reasoning Process
Bias and Mistakes in Diagnostic Reasoning
The Diagnostic Reasoning Process in Practice
Utilization of Research and Statistical Data in Diagnostic
Reasoning
Implementing Best Practices in Diagnostic Reasoning
Case Studies
Clinical Application Presentation Lectures
Topics:
Differential Diagnosis
Prognosis
Clinical Application Presentation Lectures
Topics:
Harm
Cost Analysis
- Textbooks: Required Text:
Groopman, Jerome. (2007). How Doctors Think
Gladwell, Malcolm (2005). Blink
Kathryn Montgomery (2005) How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine
Recommended Texts:
Diagnostic Reasoning and Treatment Decision Making in Nursing, Doris L. Carrevali & Mary Durand Thomas, JB Lippincott
Clinical Decision Making and Judgment in Nursing, Edited: Carl Thompson & Dawn Dowding, Churchill Livingstone
Current Laboratory/Diagnostic Interpretation Text
Required Readings from selected Peer-reviewed Journals to be provided
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy:
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- Policy on Make-up Work:
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.