Advanced Practice Nursing II: Younger Years

Catalog description

This course focuses on the synthesis of current nursing theory relevant to pediatric health care and special care management of the developing individual with a long-term health care deviation from birth through adolescence. The growing and developing client is viewed holisticaly and is considered within the context of the family and the community as the support system through which the plan of complex care is implemented. Using a systems framework, specific long term health care deviations are explored in depth. Planning and care management are approached on a collaborative basis between client/family, advanced practice nurse, and other health care professionals with goals of productive maturity by the client, stabilized health care needs and an informed and appropriate use of health care resources by the client. Prerequisite: NURS 7242 .