This is a 2-credit course. 

Description

Enables the nurse practitioner student to develop a strong base for clinical decision-making in the assessment and management of the healthcare needs of young to older adults. Emphasis is on health promotion and maintenance, and disease screening and prevention in adults in a primary care setting.

Additional information

This course integrates the application of physical assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in the management of adolescents, adults, and aging individuals with acute, minor health problems in a primary care population

Course competencies

At the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Apply the process of clinical decision-making and assessment in formulating diagnosis, implementing and documenting therapeutic, diagnostic, and educational primary care interventions when focusing on health promotion and risk reduction through preventative screening in the care of adolescents, adults, and aging individuals.
• Implement collaborative communications skills across disciplines and healthcare systems to develop partnerships in the care of adolescents, adults, and older adults in promoting healthy development and aging across the lifespan.
• Demonstrate competency in the performance of comprehensive adolescent and geriatric assessments among culturally diverse patient populations, using established clinical evaluation tools.
• Implement management interventions plans that include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to acute, minor health problems in adolescence, adults and aging individuals.
• Educate individuals, families, or caregivers to navigate across transitional levels of care and across healthcare systems for older adults.
• Apply current genomic information in the screening of patients for risk prevention and cancer prevention.
• Apply leadership skills when implementing patient safety and quality improvement in managing acute, minor health problems and improving healthcare outcomes in primary care settings.

This is a 2-credit course.

Description

Integrates the application of physical assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in the management of adults and aging individuals with chronic, complex health problems. 

Additional information

Evidence-based research supports advanced nursing practice management interventions in primary health care.

Course competencies

At the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Determine the impact of risk factors on the adult patient with common, chronic illnesses.
• Use research findings from nursing and related disciplines to support advanced nursing practice interventions for adults and aging individuals with chronic illnesses.
• Apply relevant research and establish protocols, national standard guidelines, and standards of care, not limited to nursing and medical management, to develop safe, efficacious interventions to deliver quality patient outcomes.
• Analyze patient data through problem-based case studies to develop differential diagnoses, select appropriate diagnostic and treatment interventions including pharmacological and non-pharmacological modalities, in the management of adults and older adults.
• Analyze the impact of cultural, ethical, and ethnic factors on the normal aging process.
• Use information technology to create a database to access resource materials from local, state, and national public health and healthcare systems.
• Identify patient and caregiver education strategies for promoting health maintenance in adults and aging individuals.
• Articulate the effects of culture, diversity, values, and globalization in the design, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare services through written discussion.

This is a 3-credit course,

Description

This course integrates the application of physical assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in the management of adolescents, adults, and aging individuals with acute, minor health problems in a primary care population.

Course competencies

At the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Apply the process of clinical decision-making and assessment in formulating diagnoses and implementing and documenting therapeutic, diagnostic, and educational primary care interventions when focusing on health promotion and risk reduction through preventative screening in the care of adolescents, adults, and aging individuals.
• Implement collaborative communication skills across disciplines and healthcare systems to develop partnerships in the care of adolescents, adults, and older adults in promoting healthy development and aging across the lifespan.
• Demonstrate competency in the performance of comprehensive adolescent and geriatric assessments among culturally diverse patient populations using established clinical evaluation tools.
• Implement management interventions plans that include both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to acute, minor health problems in adolescence, adults, and aging individuals.
• Educate individuals, families, or caregivers to navigate across transitional levels of care and across healthcare systems for older adults.
• Apply current genomic information in the screening of patients for risk prevention and cancer prevention.

Clinical competencies

Students complete 225 clock hours of supervised clinical experience in fall semester.

This is a 4-credit course,

Description

Provides students with the necessary clinical skills to manage care of adults and aging individuals with chronic, complex health problems in a variety of primary care settings.

Course competencies

At the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate increased competencies in clinical problem-solving and diagnostic decision-making, and in socialization into the role of the advanced practice nurse in caring for patients with chronic diseases in a variety of healthcare systems.
• Provide direct care to patients with complex multi-system health problems in clinical situations with an emphasis on articulation and self-reflection of advanced practice nursing behaviors that demonstrate one’s ability to collaborate and to manage patients within a variety of healthcare delivery systems.
• Systematically apply scientific findings from evidenced-base practice literature to answer clinical questions, improve patient outcomes to common, chronic health problems, and implement advanced nursing practice interventions in the care of select diverse patient populations.
• Demonstrate collaborative practice behaviors between behavior health, medicine, social work, and other allied professionals when providing care to patients with complex chronic disorders.
• Articulate the effects of culture, diversity, genetics, and globalization in the design, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare services.
• Communicate effectively in verbal and written forms with patients, caregivers, peers, and healthcare professionals.
• Apply the process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation when planning caring for adults and aging individuals.
• Engage in lifelong learning activities that contribute to professional development as well as to the advancement of nursing.
• Model excellence in nursing leadership to improve advanced nursing practice within complex healthcare systems.
• Conduct advanced nursing practice within ethical–legal guidelines, professional policies and regulations, and standards of practice associated with a specialty area of practice.
• Demonstrate scholarly inquiry and reflection that exemplifies critical, creative, and systems thinking to advance the practice of nursing.
• Frame problems, design interventions, specify outcomes, and measure achievement of outcomes while balancing fiscal, and material resources to achieve quality health outcomes.

Clinical competencies

Students complete 300 clock hours of supervised clinical experience in spring semester.