Clinical: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care III

Catalog description

This is the culminating hands-on internship course in the program. It prepares advanced practice nurses 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 gained is applied in the clinical setting. From the placement, 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. The skills gained allow students to provide a spectrum of 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 825 and NU 827 and NL825C and NL827C.