Advanced Primary Care of the Adult and Older Adult II

Catalog description

In this course, students continue to develop knowledge and skills to provide primary care to adult- gerontology patients with complex health disorders. Students develop evidence-based plans of care using age-appropriate assessments, diagnostics, and disease management strategies for primary care of adult-gerontology patients with a focus on remaining body systems. There is an emphasis on the collection of subjective and objective data, laboratory findings, diagnostic tests, diagnoses, and a plan for patient-centered therapeutic interventions for disease management of adult-gerontology primary care patients with complex disorders of the endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, hematological, and neurological system as well as the management of complex mental health disorders.