This is a 2-credit course. 

Description

This course emphasizes the concepts of health promotion, wellness, health maintenance and disease prevention when providing primary care to a diverse population, ranging from adolescence to the frail elderly. In this course, students are asked to apply principles of health assessment, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in the management of individuals with acute health disorders.

Course competencies

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

1. Apply concepts of health promotion and wellness, disease prevention, and primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in the treatment management of adolescents, adults, and older adults with acute, minor health problems in primary care settings.
2. Integrate current evidenced base practice research findings, national guidelines, standards of care, and AGPCNP NONPF competencies in the management of adolescents, adults, and older adults with acute, minor episodic health problems.
3. Evaluate clinical interventions with emphasis on patient safety, cost, efficacy, and quality improvement outcomes when managing health conditions in adolescent and adults.
4. Discuss current health policies with an interdisciplinary focus in facilitating optimal health care outcomes for adolescent, adult and aged individuals with health problems when transitioning across the health care spectrum.
5. Integrate nursing, cultural, legal and ethical principles to guide decision-making in the appropriate selection of management strategies in the care of adolescents, adult and geriatric patient.
6. Demonstrate professional verbal and written communication skills appropriate for the advanced nursing practice role through written case study analysis and class discussion of young, middle, and older adults.

This is a 2-credit course.

Description

This course enables the student to integrate the application of physical assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in the management of adults and aging individuals with chronic, complex health problems. Evidence based research literature is used to support advanced nursing practice management interventions in primary health care

Course competencies

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

1. Determine the impact of risk factors on the adult patient with common, chronic illnesses.
2. Use research findings from nursing and related disciplines to support advanced nursing practice interventions for adults and aging individuals with chronic illnesses.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Analyze the impact of cultural, ethical, and ethnic factors on the normal aging process.
6. Use information technology to create a database to access resource materials from local, state, and national public health and healthcare systems.
7. Identify patient and caregiver education strategies for promoting health maintenance in adults and aging individuals.
8. 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Demonstrate competency in the performance of comprehensive adolescent and geriatric assessments among culturally diverse patient populations using established clinical evaluation tools.
4. Implement management interventions plans that include both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to acute, minor health problems in adolescence, adults, and aging individuals.
5. Educate individuals, families, or caregivers to navigate across transitional levels of care and across healthcare systems for older adults.
6. Apply current genomic information in the screening of patients for risk prevention and cancer prevention.
7. Apply leadership skills when implementing patient safety and quality improvement in managing acute, minor health problems and improving health care outcomes in primary care settings.
8. Collaborate with allied professionals, consumers and support groups as a resource in the delivery of primary care nursing.

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:

1. Emphasis is on increasing 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 health care systems.
2. 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 health care delivery systems.
3. 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.
4. Demonstrate collaborative practice behaviors between behavior health, medicine, social work, and other allied professionals when providing care to patients with complex chronic disorders.
5. Articulate the effects of culture, diversity, genetics, and globalization in the design, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare services.
6. Communicate effectively in verbal and written forms with patients, caregivers, peers, and healthcare professionals.
7. Apply the process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation when planning caring for adults and aging individuals.

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