Special Populations and Topics in Emergency Health Care

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare the emergency nurse practitioner student to assume responsibility for stabilization and treatment of special populations that present to the emergency department. Evidence-based practice is discussed as it relates to the evaluation and treatment of emergent conditions in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, mental health disorders, victims of abuse, and patients receiving palliative and hospice care. Special topics of disaster management, the approach to acute resuscitation, analgesia and procedural sedation, toxicology, environmental emergencies and legal topics in emergency health care will be covered.