Adv Practice Across Lifespan

Catalog description

This course has both didactic and clinical components. The focus of this course is assessment, diagnosis, and management of complex acute and chronic health problems in individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on management of complex individuals/patients with chronic and multiple co-morbidities. The importance of rendering competent and relevant advanced practice care to individuals across the lifespan in primary care and appropriate health care settings is stressed. The impact of illness on the client’s quality of life, cultural and family role is included and emphasized. There is an emphasis on illness prevention, health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Included in each unit of study are definitions, etiology, clinical features, laboratory studies, differential diagnoses, complications and treatment-including pharmacological agents. Attention is given to the integration and application of advanced health assessment and critical-thinking skills, developmental and family theories, and health promotion strategies in the diagnostic and clinical management processes of the family nurse practitioner (FNP) role. Client education, community resources and follow-up procedures are also integrated throughout each unit. Application of evidence based findings and clinical reasoning skills are required.