30-611 NP Practicum I: Adults in Community/Primary Care

This course is first in a series of supervised clinical experiences for nurse practitioner students. This course provides the opportunity to utilize core nurse practitioner skills in the community, including development of health promotion, health protection, and/or disease prevention programming. The student also begins to develop skills in evaluation, diagnosis and management of common episodic and chronic health problems seen in primary care. Special emphasis is placed on obtaining a relevant health history, physical examination (complete, system, and symptom-specific) and relevant psychomotor skills.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Departmental permission; MSN core courses; 30-604; 30-605; 30-607.

Corequisite

30-610.