Practicum II: Family Nurse Practitioner

Catalog description

NUR 721 allows students to continue the development of the family nurse practitioner role by providing health care services to patients across the lifespan in primary care settings. This course emphasizes further development of clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills and the diagnosis and treatment of common and more complicated acute episodic and chronic health problems of adults, pregnant women and children. Students will have opportunities to further advance knowledge and clinical skills in performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to the role of the nurse practitioner. This practicum requires 150 direct clinical hours. P: NUR 741 ; CO: NUR 720 and NUR 722 .