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6.00 Credits
This courses is a clinical practice component complementing the didactic of NUR 580. Experiences are provided for comprehensive health assessment and beginning management of adolescent, adult, and geriatric clients through interviewing and history taking, physical examination, laboratory testing, clinical decision making and formulation of plans of care in a primary care setting. Focus includes health promotion, disease prevention and management of acute/episodic health care and selected chronic and co-morbid illnesses. Corequisite: NUR 580.
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3.00 Credits
This course builds upon prior content of Adult ? Geriatric Health Concerns I. The course utilizes a holistic approach focused upon complicated and complex chronic and acute problems common in the adolescent, adult, and geriatric population in a primary care setting. Critical thinking based on synthesizing knowledge and skills from all previous courses is applied in the development of a comprehensive evaluation and management plan of care for individual clients. The collaborative aspect of the nurse practitioner roles in educating and particularly in the management of clients with complex needs is addressed. The role of the client and family as active participants in the holistic plan of care is emphasized. Prerequisites: NUR 580, NUR 581. Corequisite: NUR 583.
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6.00 Credits
This course is the clinical practice component complementing the didactic of NUR 582 and building upon the foundation and previous experience from Advanced Assessment, Management of Adult-Geriatric Health Concerns I, Adult-Geriatric Nursing Practitioner Practicum I, and core courses in the sciences and research. Ongoing experiences are provided for comprehensive health assessment and management of adolescent, adult, and geriatric clients in the areas of prevention, minor acute/episodic health care needs and stable chronic illness. Emphasis is placed on expanding depth and scope, increasing independence, refining previously acquired skills and managing clients with multiple health problems. Corequisite: NUR 582.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the role of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner as the provider of primary pediatric health care. Uses a developmental approach to the management of children from birth through adolescence. Content focuses on normal growth and development throughout childhood, health promotion and maintenance and the management of minor acute health problems. Emphasizes a holistic approach which incorporates family dynamics, developmental tasks, health beliefs, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic issues of the pediatric client. Appropriate methods of client/family teaching, anticipatory guidance, support and counseling are taught and demonstrated. Prerequisites: Completion of core. Corequisite: NUR 591.
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6.00 Credits
Provides the advanced practice nursing student with clinical experience in primary pediatric health care settings. Provides opportunities to practice comprehensive health care with a variety of pediatric clients under the supervision of an approved preceptor. Students are expected to perform comprehensive health histories and physical examinations, order appropriate laboratory tests, utilize clinical decision making and formulate a plan of care within the primary care setting. Areas of clinical experience include routine health care visits for children from birth to adolescence incorporating health promotion and disease and injury prevention as well as care for children with acute episodic health conditions. Emphasizes a holistic approach to ambulatory health care. Case presentation skills are developed within a safe and nurturing environment. Corequisite: NUR 590.
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3.00 Credits
Provides the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student with the necessary knowledge to diagnose and manage the primary health needs of children from birth to adolescence. Emphasis is placed on a systems approach to diagnosis and management of common acute illnesses and stable chronic illnesses. Integration of concepts of health maintenance and promotion throughout the curriculum. Holistic approach to ambulatory health care which emphasizes the social, spiritual, cultural, educational, developmental, and economic needs of the patient and family. Prerequisites: NUR 590, NUR 591. Corequisite: NUR 593
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6.00 Credits
Culminating clinical experience for the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student. Focuses on providing students with opportunities to develop knowledge and skills necessary to assist infants through adolescents with the most common health problems. Experiences will include acute episodic illnesses, stable chronic conditions, as well as continued emphasis on health promotion and maintenance. Emphasizes a holistic approach to ambulatory health care which incorporates the social, spiritual, cultural, educational, developmental, and economic needs of the client and family. By the completion of this course, the student is expected to be able to function independently as a beginning Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Prerequisites: NUR 590, NUR 591. Corequisite: NUR 592
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3.00 Credits
Examination of human behavior within the context of health care delivery systems. Emphasis is on the impact of rapidly accelerating change and effective management of change. Theories of organizational behavior are presented in light of specific organizational problems that impact advanced practice nursing.
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6.00 Credits
Examination of management processes as they relate to advanced practice nursing and the health care delivery system. Fiscal responsibility including budget preparation and implementation will be incorporated. Prerequisites: NUR 602, completion of core and areas of specialization courses.
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3.00 Credits
Concepts of learning and selected learning theories are explored, compared and contrasted, and applied within nursing education. Students are guided in evaluating the learning process from both research and experiential perspectives. The interface between instructional technology and learning is explored within the context of learning styles and expectations of millennial learners.
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