NURS 697 Prim.Care of Women& Child.

Further refine skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems of women and children (infants through adolescents). Seminars are grounded in learning the application of theory and evidence to the competencies of practice of the family nurse practitioner with emphasis on the management of patient health and illness and the anticipatory guidance role of the nurse practitioner in the specialty of pediatrics and women’s health. The practicum provides 225 supervised clinical practice hours for the FNP student to continue development of the role competencies. (Course fee applies.)