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Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Skills

NURS 566 (3)

Focuses on diagnostic and technical skills used to diagnose, sustain, or stabilize acutely ill patients. Includes electrocardiogram interpretation, ACLS, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, ABG interpretations, laboratory values, splinting, casting, suturing, x-ray interpretation.

Prerequisite: 501 and 503 and 505 and 540 and 543.

Pre- or corequisite: 526.

Corequisite: 567.

Restriction: admitted to graduate program in nursing.

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Prerequisites / Corequisites

Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Nursing - NURS 501

Research in Nursing - NURS 503

Health Care Policy, Systems and Financing for Advanced Practice Roles - NURS 505

Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning - NURS 540

Pharmacological Principles of Clinical Therapeutics - NURS 543

Pathophysiology in Advanced Practice Nursing - NURS 526

Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Ethical Considerations - NURS 567

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