Family Nurse Practitioner Practicum II: Women’s Health and Pediatrics

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to advanced nursing practice through experiential immersion in the care for women’s health and pediatric patients. Emphasis will be placed on functional area core competencies in population context: Family Nurse Practitioner. This course will prepare the graduate student for the role of Family Nurse Practitioner to assume responsibility and accountability for health promotion and/or maintenance as well as assessment, diagnosis and management of problems within Women’s Health and Pediatrics, which indicates increased complexity of skills and interventions, and greater role of autonomy.