NUR 770K - PNP-PC Clinical Experience I

Credit Hours: 4

Focuses on application of nursing theory, pathophysiological and epidemiological concepts and exploration of nursing therapies, skills and techniques essential to the provision of primary healthcare for infants, children, and adolescents in the context of their families. Clinical experiences focus on normal growth and development, health promotion, anticipatory guidance, management of common health issues, acute illness, complex chronic, and/or disabling life-long processes for infants, children, and adolescents in the context of their families. Working with clinical preceptors, within the pediatric nurse practitioner scope of practice, the pediatric nurse practitioner student assumes a more autonomous role in physical assessment, determining pathophysiological processes, interpreting diagnostic findings (subjective and objective), initiating pharmacotherapeutic and non-pharmacologic therapies, providing patient and parent teaching, and developing health promotion and disease prevention strategies for infants, children, and adolescents.

Prerequisite: NUR 612, NUR 618, NUR 602, NUR 602R, and NUR 702
Graded: P/F

Minimum Grade Required: Passing grade to proceed in MSN program.