NURS 775 - Primary Care I

Credit(s): 6
Prerequisite(s): NURS 750 and NURS 774
This course focuses on primary care of populations across the lifespan (infants/children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and women’s health). This course will also address issues of development using a bio-psycho-social framework to examine the historical, cultural, biological, physiological, psychological, and social aspects of health across the lifespan. The course emphasis is on gaining the knowledge necessary to prevent, diagnose and manage primary care health problems across the lifespan. Topics pertaining to practice management, career development and legal and ethical issues will be explored and applied to primary care.
This course also consists of a 200-hour clinical practicum in which students will be precepted in a primary care setting. (4 credits didactic; 2 credits clinical: 200 hours)