Practicum I: Neonatal Assessment and Management

Catalog description

NUR 743 is a preceptor-supervised practicum course designed to begin development of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) role by providing care to infants in the delivery room, transition nursery, intermediate care nursery, and diagnostic procedures in the intensive care nursery. The student applies knowledge of pathophysiology, neonatal assessment, emergency stabilization, radiological evaluation, laboratory interpretation, and diagnostic reasoning to the care of normal and low-risk neonates in the NICU. This practicum requires 150 direct clinical hours. P: 4000 hours of direct patient care in a Level III or Level IV NICU. CO: NUR 633 .