Advanced Comprehensive Health Assessment

Location: Athlone
weeks: 15
Fees: €1,200

Level 9
Course Type Flexible and Professional Learning
Study Mode Part Time
Department Nursing & Healthcare

Course Overview

Advanced health assessment involves a holistic approach to a comprehensive health history and advanced physical assessment, enabling students to acquire the knowledge and skills required to undertake an advanced health assessment.

The health system faces ongoing challenges such as increased care demand and complexity driven by population increase and ageing. It is projected in the next 10 years the population > 65 years will reach 1 million.

Enabling nurses with the knowledge and skills to undertake advanced health assessment facilitates immediate and early management of adult patients presenting to healthcare facilities, enhances their capability to provide and support innovative, responsive high-quality service delivery in line with current national Healthcare Policy objectives and improves health service infrastructure.

Contact Details

Dr. Denise Blanchfield

Email: Denise.Blanchfield@tus.ie

Entry Requirements

Advanced Comprehensive Health assessment will be offered to nurses who hold a Level 8 qualification (or equivalent) in nursing or a Master’s degree which is relevant or applicable to the advanced field of practice.

It is a requirement for entry to the programme that students will be employed within the clinical setting area. Students must be registered or eligible to register as either RGN, or RPN, or RCN, or RNID, or RM or RPHN on the live register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).

Students are required to:

Be currently employed as a nurse in a clinical area where a robust clinical governance structure is in place.
Have a minimum of one-year post-registration clinical experience (within the past 5 years)
Provide evidence of Continuing Professional Development and the ability to study at Level 9
Complete and submit a Signed Site Declaration Form from their clinical employer which includes nomination and confirmation of a designated medical practitioner mentor.

The following are examples of healthcare settings:

Primary Care Public Health and Community Care
Palliative Care Services
General Practice
Community Hospitals
Nursing Homes
Acute Hospitals
Mental Health Services

Application Information

Declaration Form

Please return completed documents to: admissions.midlands@tus.ie

Course Modules

Semester Outline

Advanced Comprehensive Health Assessment

Credits: 10
To achieve the learning outcomes, the programme will incorporate face-to-face learning while incorporating remote online learning via a virtual learning environment platform.

Clinical skill demonstration and application offer learners meaningful opportunities to participate in clinical activities, practising and developing communication skills, history taking and physical examination competence. Teaching and learning strategies combine classroom and clinical components achieve alignment between student outcomes and knowledge transfer into clinical situations.

Advanced Comprehensive Health Assessment is a Level 9, Special Purpose Award which will be delivered over a period of 15 weeks using a blended learning approach in which there will be a requirement to attend Campus in person for 4 Days for the duration of the programme with a futher 10 days (online part days) for theoretical instruction.

Programme Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this programme the learner will/should be able to:
1. Develop and utilise the requisite knowledge required regarding structure and function of the anatomical and physiological systems of the human body to undertake an advanced comprehensive health assessment.
2. Integrate the knowledge and skills required to undertake an advanced comprehensive health assessment in the management of patients, clients, service users presenting with altered homeostasis.
3. Utilise new and existing evidence-based practice and knowledge to undertake advanced comprehensive health assessment to inform individualised plan of care for patients, clients, service users.
4. Demonstrate the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required to complete an advanced comprehensive health assessment and strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration and communication.

What can you do after this programme?

Career Opportunities

Enabling nurses with the knowledge and skills to undertake advanced comprehensive health assessment facilitates immediate and early management of adult patients presenting to healthcare facilities, enhances their capability to provide and support innovative, responsive high-quality service delivery in line with current national Healthcare Policy Objectives.

Further Study

It is envisaged that nurses who complete this programme will have the requisite knowledge and clinical skills to undertake further postgraduate studies in nursing and healthcare related subjects.