Mar 28, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

NSG 5641 Family Nurse Practitioner Practicum


Lecture: 0 Lab: 0 Practica: 6 Total Credits: 6
This course focuses on developing proficiency in basic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the interpretation of the results. It is a clinical course covering the primary care management of all ages through the life span with a focus on health maintenance and disease prevention. It provides the student opportunities to develop or perfect the skills and procedures necessary for the clinical management of selected clients. It focuses on evaluation and management of common acute and chronic health care problems. It is the third of three sequential courses that apply the nursing process through communication and assessment skills, interpreting findings, applying laboratory diagnostic methods, developing plans of care, and implementing nursing strategies to promote personal, cognitive, and physical health. The focus is on strategies for the pediatric, adolescent, middlescence and senescence in all areas where there is a need for health care.

Prerequisite(s): NSG 5110 , NSG 5140 , NSG 5240 , NSG 5340 , NSG 5341 , NSG 5441 , NSG 5541 , or faculty consent