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Andrea M Champlin1, Lisa R Roberts, Robin D Pueschel
1Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Ms Champlin and Drs Pueschel, Huerta, and Yang), Professor and Research Director (Dr Roberts), Research Assistant (Ms Saunders), and Nurse Practitioner Program Coordinator (Dr Huerta), Graduate School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, California.
Background:
Advanced health assessment is a required course in advanced practice RN (APRN) education, essential to providing the foundation for differential diagnosis (DD) skills and the ability to formulate a plan of care.
Problem:
Feedback from clinical preceptors revealed that our doctor of nursing practice (DNP) students struggled to make a DD.
Approach:
This educational quality improvement project collected data from 7 cohorts of DNP students in either the Family Nurse Practitioner or Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program to evaluate their readiness for clinical practicums and to inform necessary curriculum revisions.
Outcomes:
Data revealed that students' ability to identify 3 DDs correctly during the summative health assessment objective structured clinical examination was inconsistent. Qualitative data revealed students lacked understanding on how to use results from the physical assessment to formulate a DD.
Conclusion:
The findings of this project corroborate those from the literature that suggest we should teach APRN students DD skills explicitly.
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