Clinical: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care I

Catalog description

This hands-on practicum experience is designed to prepare the advanced practice nursing student to care for patients who are acutely and critically ill across the continuum of acute care services. In conjunction with the co-requisite didactic course, knowledge obtained is applied within the clinical setting. Students gain strong diagnostic reasoning skills, and develop advanced nursing management and technology skills that are needed to care for acute, chronic and critically ill individuals and their families. Clinical settings include intensive care (cardiothoracic surgery, trauma, neurosurgery, medicine, and more), specialty services such as electrophysiology/heart failure, transplant, emergency medicine, and urgent care. Students obtain a spectrum of skills to provide care ranging from disease prevention to acute and critical care management in order to stabilize the patient’s condition, prevent complications, restore health and/or provide palliative and end-of-life care. Prerequisite(s): NU 700 and NU 702 and NU 704 and NU 706 .