Master's prepared nurses working as RNs. Do you do advanced assessments?

[dudette10]

Master's programs include an advanced health assessment course as part of the core curriculum, regardless of area of concentration. If you are working as a bedside RN, do you, as a matter of course, utilize your advanced assessment skills? When do you use them? Has your advanced assessment education and practice changed the circumstances under which you would notify the doctor, as compared to before your master's program when your assessment skills were more basic?

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/faculty/faculty-tool-kits/masters-essentials/faqs

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/faculty/faculty-tool-kits/masters-essentials/faqs

The second link explains the 3P's requirement a little bit better.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Agreed. I have my MSN with a concentration in Nursing Education. I did not take an advanced physical assessment course. My core courses focused on research, health policy and theory, while my concentration courses focused specifically on curriculum development and other aspects of education.

Same here - although I am now looking at a DNP course and will have to have the Three P's for it (which I am wanting to take anyhow!)