5566NP Adult Nurse Practitioner Health Care Nursing III (4)
This course is designed to prepare adult clinical nurse practitioner (NP)
students in the care and management of adults populations with chronic health
problems. The focus of the course is on the differentiation and therapeutic
management of chronic health problems encountered by adult NPs in various
health care settings. Emphasis is given to those health issues commonly
encountered by adult NPs. The course enables students develop a research and
theory based practice for disease state management of health care for adults.
Core content: theoriesgrief and loss, chronicity, and pain; advanced nursing
skills. This course consists of 2 credit hours of lecture/discussion and 2
credit hours of clinical experience. The 2 credit hours of clinical experience
consists of 165 hours. Clinical practice and clinical seminar comprise the
clinical experience.