Primary Care

Catalog description

Aspects of advanced health assessment, clinical reasoning, and diagnostic skills necessary to manage common stable, chronic, and episodic alterations in health. Various advanced nursing practice roles in health care, ethical and legal issues in clinical practice, application of research-based clinical outcomes, promotion and maintenance of health, disease prevention and treatment modalities for individuals are explored. Content is presented in weekly clinical case studies related to common alterations in health. Factors influencing health care systems, patterns of human responses, and cultural and epidemiological influences will be discussed in weekly clinical case studies. Students must earn a minimum of a B in the course. Students who receive less than a B will be required to repeat the course. Students will be allowed to repeat the course no more than once. A second grade below a B will make students ineligible to continue in programs requiring this course.