Canyon College - Physical Assessment and Diagnosis Course Online

online Physical Assessment and Diagnosis Course at Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: Physical Assessment and Diagnosis

NH715 - Doctorate in Natural Health Care

Instructor:

Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D., RN, CS, CH-C, GC-C, DCH(c) - Vita | E-mail
Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner

Syllabus

Welcome to NH715, a Doctorate Level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Doctorate in Natural Health Care. We are pleased to offer you this course, which will be a very important foundational course for the remainder of your studies in the doctorate program. This is an exciting course. We have the opportunity in this course to explore the art and science of physical assessment and diagnosis. This course is an intensive course and is equivalent to any physical assessment and diagnosis course in a medical school curriculum. It provides foundational study in health, wellness, and in pathology states. It takes us from the "normal" to the abnormal and uses a "body systems" framework for content presentation.

Students will learn how to take a comprehensive health history. They will also learn how to conduct a comprehensive physical assessment/examination. Each body system that is examined will be done so in the context of the "normal" progressing to the most common manifestations and findings in disease states. At the completion of this course, students will have a solid foundation of skills and knowledge and will be able to conduct a proficient health history on clients, as well as appropriate physical assessments. Students will also have a foundational knowledge of many disease states and their manifestations and subjective symptoms.

TIME FRAME: This is a four-semester hour course. This course is allotted 10 weeks of time. Students must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the 10-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your text book(s) have arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless the student has good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be awarded 4 semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) required textbooks for this course. - Online Bookstore

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Ninth Edition, with E-Book, by Lynn S. Bickley and Peter G. Szilagyi. Philadelphia; Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2007. ISBN-13: 9780781785198

This book may be found at your locale bookstores. Your locale bookstores most often will order them as a special order for you.

You may also purchase this book directly from the publisher by going to their website:
http://www.lww.com/

EXAMINATIONS: There is one final examination for this course. The examination will be an objective type test of multiple choice and true/false questions. It is an open book examination.

The final examination must be taken by the end of the 10th week in the course.
The examination is programmed and is located in the classroom for this course. The examination is an "open book" objective type. Students will have 3 days to complete their exam, once they access it from the classroom. To access the exams, you must send me an email at dominick@canyoncollege.edu and request to have access to the exam. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASS WORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have 72 hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the date and exact time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submit your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. In a short time following you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I too receive this the copy of your exam and your score.

GRADING: the grading scale for this course is as follows:

90- 100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with your instructor. Your instructor is available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me. I prefer you to use dominick@canyoncollege.edu If during your time in this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

WRITTEN ASSIGNEMENTS: Students in this course will produce a learning portfolio as they progress. In the classroom is a link for the written assignments. For each chapter in the textbook, students are given specific questions, which they must respond to in writing. After the student has completed reading and study of a chapter, they will progress to address the chapter questions. Responses to the chapter questions are NOT to be turned in to the instructor until the end of the 9th week in the course. At that time, the student will submit all responses to all questions for the entire book. This comprises the learning portfolio for the course. Detailed instructions for completing the learning portfolio are provided in the course classroom. Click on assignments for details.

Second major course assignment: Students are required to conduct an actual health history on a recruited subject. The health history must follow the guidelines as provided in the text. Students will write up the health history and submit it to the instructor by the end of the 5th week in the course. Specific information is provided in the course classroom. Click on assignments for details.

Written assignments are graded on a Pass/Fail basis.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, MBA, RN,CS, FACHE, is Dean of Nursing and Alternative Health Care at Canyon College, and is professor of many of the nursing and health care related Certificate Programs offered by the Canyon College. He holds a BSN degree, a Masters in Business Administration, a Masters In Health Science Education, and PhDs in Nursing Administration and Management. He is a Registered Nurse and a Certified and Licensed Adult Nurse Practitioner. He has held positions as an Emergency Room Nurse Practitioner, A Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with a specialty practice in BioPsychiatry, a Nurse Executive, A Chief Operating Officer, and an Administrator in Acute Care. He has also held several positions with national consulting firms.

Dr. Flarey is currently the Editor-in-Chief of a journal in Healthcare Law, Ethics & Regulation. He lectures extensively across the country on management and clinical issues in health care, as well as law and ethics. He is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and a Doctoral Candidate in Hypnotherapy. He is Certified in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Certified as a Grief Counselor, and Certified in Angelology Practice. He has a small hypnotherapy practice in Northeastern Ohio, and also does private Spiritual Counseling, as well as Intuitive Counseling and mediumship work. He holds a Practitioner Certificate in Metaphysics from the University of Metaphysics in California and was recently certified in Pastoral Counseling Psychology.

He is the co-author/editor of 7 texts books in health care, and has authored over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Flarey is a Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Commission. He is licensed as a Nurse Practitioner in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. He practiced as a Nurse Practitioner for four years in a large emergency room, and also practice on a surgical service and in primary care.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The objectives for this course are:

Understand the breath and scope of practice related to physical assessment and diagnosis.
Learn how to conduct a comprehensive health history on clients.
Learn how to conduct a comprehensive physical assessment/examination on clients.
Understand the basic and foundational techniques of conducting physical assessments.
Understand how to conduct a physical examination structured by body systems.
Learn to accurately record the health history and the physical examination.
Understand the aging process and how to conduct a health history and physical examination on geriatric clients.
Understand the special issues of history taking and physical examination related to children and adolescents.
Understand the specific history and assessment standards related to the pregnant client.
Understand how to conduct a comprehensive psychosocial history.
Understand the modern day use of assessment tools and equipment, their purpose and proper uses.
Understand the methodology involved in conducting a physical assessment on infants.
Begin to comfortably conduct a health history and a physical assessment on recruited clients.
Use the tools of physical assessment and health history taking to formulate a client problem list.

ASSIGNEMENTS: for specific assignments, please click on the link "Assignments"

QUESTIONS: if you have any questions concerning this syllabus and /or the course, please contact your instructor directly at : dominick@canyoncollege.edu