NU 631 Primary Care III: Advanced Primary Care & Health Promotion of Special Populations
This is the final clinical course designed to enable graduate students to learn the diagnostic and management skills necessary to complete socialization into the role of family nurse practitioner. Class content will introduce students to methodologies used to diagnose and treat common primary care problems found in special populations, emerging families and their members. Implementation and synthesis of the role will be addressed through a focus on types of practice settings, reimbursement mechanisms, marketing strategies, employment opportunities, and collaborative relationships. Future trends in advanced nursing practice will be explored. The application of advanced nursing practice theory into supervised clinical practice will be included and emphasized. In this course, students will complete a capstone project that is a culminating experience beyond the required course work. It represents the student’s ability to formulate a project and implement it from start to finish using a combination of conceptual, technical and applied knowledge.