NURS 780S Clinical Applications for Primary Care of the Young Child
Seminar (Seminar - 5 hours/week; clinical - 135/semester) This is the first clinical course offered to prepare the student for advanced practice as a pediatric, school, or family nurse practitioner. The course focuses on comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and management of health and common health problems of children in a primary care setting. Concepts and content of well-child maintenance will be explored for specific age groups as well as select common acute illnesses and developmental/behavioral problems presenting in childhood. The client system addressed is the newborn through school age child within a family and community framework. NURS 657 is a pre-requisite. Department consent required.