NURS 776 - Primary Care II

Credit(s): 6
Prerequisite(s): NURS 775
This course focuses on the episodic and acute care issues that present in primary care across the lifespan (infants/children, adolescents, women, adults, and older adults). This course also addresses issues of development using a bio-psycho-social framework to examine the historical, cultural, biological, physiological, psychological, and social aspects of care of episodic and acute conditions across the lifespan. The course emphasizes gaining knowledge necessary to prevent, diagnose and manage episodic and acute health problems. 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)