NURS 572 - Primary Care III

This is a hybrid course.
This course provides the nurse practitioner student with a culminating practicum experience in order to refine the knowledge and skills needed to deliver primary health care to clients across the lifespan, within the context of family and community. Emphasis is placed upon the student’s increasing independence in the application and provisions of evidenced based clinical decision making, problem identification and management, health promotion and client and family health education and counseling. Multi-faceted outcome-based interventions including complementary and alternative therapies, health education and health promotion will be utilized in the provision of care within a multidisciplinary team approach in order to heal the body, mind and spirit.
Prerequisites: NURS 505 NURS 571 (Corequisite: NURS 579), HUMN 505
5 credit hours
(250 clinical hours)