Primary Care I

Catalog description

This course focuses on primary care of populations across the lifespan (infants/children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and women’s health). This course will also address issues of development using a bio-psycho-social framework to examine the historical, cultural, biological, physiological, psychological, and social aspects of health across the lifespan. The course emphasis is on gaining the knowledge necessary to prevent, diagnose, and manage primary care health problems across the lifespan. Topics pertaining to practice management, career development, and legal and ethical issues will be explored and applied to primary care. NURS 775S is a corequisite for NURS 775, both the lecture and clinical courses must be taken concurrently. If a student must withdraw from the lecture course, the student must also withdraw from the corequisite clinical course. Note: Failure in NURS 775 (grade less than B-) results in repeating NURS 775 and NURS 775S. (4 credits didactic; 2 credits clinical: 250 hours)