Adult And Geriatric Management I

Documentation Related to Coding and Billing Adaptation to the Nurse Practitioner Role

• Clinical: Perform and accurately document appropriate comprehensive or symptom-focused physical examinations on patients, including developmental and behavioral screening and physical system evaluations
• Clinical: Order, perform, and interpret age-, gender-, and condition-specific diagnostic tests and screening procedures
• Clinical: Formulate comprehensive differential diagnoses while considering epidemiology, environmental and community characteristics, and life stage development, including the presentation seen with increasing age, family, and behavioral risk factors.
• Clinical: Provide health protection, health promotion, disease prevention interventions, and treatment strategies to improve or maintain optimum health for all family members.
• Clinical: Treat common acute and chronic physical and mental illnesses and common injuries.
• Clinical: Practice lawfully based on federal and state regulations, which includes the methodology of practice (California students: specifically Standardized Procedures and furnishing number).
• Obtain, document, and articulate an accurate, relevant health history for patients in all phases of the individual and family life cycle including spiritual, lifestyle, and cultural considerations.
• Perform and accurately document appropriate comprehensive or symptom-focused physical examinations on patients, including developmental and behavioral screening and physical system evaluations.
• Order, perform, and interpret age-, gender-, and condition-specific diagnostic tests and screening procedures.
• Formulate comprehensive differential diagnoses while considering epidemiology, environmental and community characteristics, and life stage development, including the presentation seen with increasing age, family, and behavioral risk factors.
• Plan health protection, health promotion, disease prevention interventions, treatment strategies, and patient education to improve or maintain optimum health for all family members.
• Develop and implement a treatment plan for common, acute, and chronic physical and mental health conditions, including patient’s spiritual, lifestyle, and cultural preferences.
• Demonstrate inter-professional collaboration with appropriate case presentation.
• Evaluate interventions that promote lawful practice based on federal and state regulations, which includes the methodology of practice (California students: specifically Standardized Procedures and furnishing number).
• Incorporate cultural preferences, values, health beliefs, and behaviors into the treatment plan utilizing Watson’s theory.
• Clinical: Obtain and accurately document a relevant health history for patients in all phases of the individual and family life cycle.