NURS 735: Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing Across the Lifespan - Clinical
Credit Hours: (1-8)
Instructional Method: Asynchronous Online
Prerequisites: NURS 710, NURS 712/714, NURS 716
This clinical course provides 360 hours of direct-patient care with preceptors focusing on health wellness along with the assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute and chronic illness across the lifespan.
Content
Students will focus on the development of knowledge and skills for clinical decision-making needed to deliver advanced practice healthcare to individuals and populations across the lifespan with a focus on wellness and assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute and chronic health issues in the clinical setting.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
This course may include but is not limited to faculty and student-led seminar discussions, lectures, guest speakers, case studies, reading assignments, written work which will include clinical logs projects, and journals other teaching-learning strategies as appropriate. These may include audio or video presentations or lectures, discussion boards, chatrooms, and other instructional technology strategies may be used
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision-making across the lifespan in the clinical setting.
2. Assess, Diagnose, Coordinate, and Manage health care needs, including wellness, and acute and chronic conditions of culturally diverse individuals (children, adolescents, and adults) and families across the lifespan in varied clinical settings.
3. Select appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and perform and interpret common laboratory tests and common office procedures in the primary care setting.
4. Develop, implement, and evaluate interventions by synthesizing sources of evidence to address healthcare needs, health promotion/disease prevention, and wellness in families across the lifespan in the clinical setting.
5. Design patient-centered care to provide anticipatory guidance for expected changes (both developmental and situational) in health status, and quality of life.
6. Apply the principles of cultural and socioeconomic determinants, epidemiology, demography, and assessment of community needs and resources in evaluating the health needs of individuals and groups and making a clinical decision for interventions and management in the diverse clinical setting.
7. Demonstrate appropriate consultative and referral skills for the management of the health status of individuals across the lifespan, families, and groups within collaborative interprofessional teams in the clinical setting.
8. Communicate and document the clients’ health status using appropriate terminology and format.
Assessment Measures
Includes but is not limited to preceptor and faculty evaluation of clinical performance, completion of clinical logs, case studies; exams, and student presentations, and other strategies including using available technology for direct observation of clinical practice.
Published June 2023