NURS 655 - Advanced Family Nursing III

6 Credit(s)

This third course in the Advanced Family Nursing series provides FNP students with additional opportunities to incorporate strategies of health promotion, health maintenance, and disease prevention in family health care. Comprehensive primary care concepts are reinforced. FNP students continue to use current research findings and critical thinking skills to focus on the diagnosis and management of acute episodic and chronic diseases across the lifespan. Theory related to diagnostic reasoning continues to be incorporated into case studies. Appropriate data collection (including physical examination and diagnostic procedures) differential diagnosis, selection of appropriate therapeutics, patient education, case management, and communication are used to maximize family health. Clinical seminars are scheduled intermittently to further facilitate synthesis of knowledge and skills needed in delivery of primary care. Panel discussions focus on ethical, legal, and cultural aspects of primary care practice, issues of quality assurance, and concepts of marketing and community assessment. Students develop a practice model that can be implemented upon completion of the FNP program.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 649.
Requisite(s): NURS 663.