Adv Nsg Pract I-Younger Years

Catalog description

Students acquire theory to initiate, manage, and evaluate health care regimens for children and adolescents. This course provides the nurse practitioner student working with infants through adolescents with an expanded scientific knowledge base to manage health care situations, with a focus on health promotion and acute, episodic illness. A framework is provided for clinical decision making and clinical management in a variety of pediatric health care situations, building on the prerequisite courses. Clinical management is elaborated on for selected behavioral concerns and acute illness in the younger years. Nursing management, which includes assessment, diagnosis, laboratory testing, pharmacologic and othertherapeutic interventions, health education, counseling, referral, case coordination, and support, organizes the nurse practitioner student's approach to pediatric health care. The nurse practitioner student is provided the opportunity to conceptualize and develop a role as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary team. Prerequisites: NURS 6223 or 6227 and 6228, 7339.