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Nov 22, 2024
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NUR 253 - FNP III: Care of the Adult and Gerontological Patient and Their Families
Semester Hours: 7
This is the third of four clinical courses which focus on facilitating family nurse practitioner student development in the evaluation and management of their patient population, specifically the adult patient and their families. During this course the nurse practitioner students will directly evaluate and manage adult patients (including geriatric patients) presenting to wide ranging primary care settings, with one or more undifferentiated chief complaints (e.g. “chest pain” or “dyspnea”) under the direct supervision of expert faculty preceptors in family and adult medicine. Nurse practitioner students, as embedded members of the interprofessional team of providers, evaluate patients with a variety of chief complaints and emergent physiological alterations, including, but not limited to, those involving the cardiovascular, pulmonary, endocrine, dermatologic, renal, genitourinary and gastrointestinal systems. Through this immersive experiential learning experience, nurse practitioner students will work one-on-one with faculty preceptors and refine their history and physical diagnosis, communication, and clinical reasoning skills. Formulation of a differential diagnosis and a comprehensive evidence-based management plan for the emergent and chronic clinical problems identified will be emphasized and assessed for each patient. In addition, students will gain an invaluable appreciation for the steady progression of chronic disease and the acute changes and deterioration that is possible secondary to complications. Integration of health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration in the evaluation and management of patients within the primary care setting will also be emphasized, along with risk assessment and preventative strategies. The pharmacological management of complex symptomatology is systematically imbedded into the course. The course innovatively implements intensive didactic content both frontloaded at the beginning of the semester as well as scheduled at intervals during the semester, using an interactive case-based model. An intensive advanced skills lab and simulations are specifically placed during the semester to build skills during the clinical practicum. Advanced practice role development is integrated throughout the course. An interprofessional faculty that are experts in primary care medicine will provide quality, safe, holistic, scientifically sound, and patient-centered care to assist the adult patient and their families to better manage their health in a changing healthcare environment. Assignments and clinical placements in affiliated primary care settings provide nurse practitioner students with unique immersive learning experiences where they are able to care for diverse patient populations, ranging from those living in underserved, resource-limited communities to those living in communities with more robust community networks of care. In the primary care setting nurse practitioner students, will experience firsthand how community and hospital-based resources interface to provide continuity of care for the patients they meet.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
NUR 251 , 252 . For Graduate Nursing Majors only.
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