NUR 617 Primary Care of Adults Across the Lifespan

7 Credits

This is the first of three specialty courses for the Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) student. The practitioner student is prepared to provide holistic primary health care for the adult population. Emphasis is placed on principles of health promotion, health maintenance, and early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of commonly occurring primary health care problems. Classroom content reflects knowledge necessary for advanced clinical practice and diagnostic reasoning required to manage commonly occurring acute and chronic health problems of adults. Advanced ANP specialty content is applied through clinical practice opportunities in a variety of settings. The student develops and implements developmentally appropriate, individualized health care regimens for culturally diverse adult populations.

Laboaratory/Clinical Requirements: This course includes 126 clinical practice hours.

Prerequisite(s): NUR 607 , NUR 611 , NUR 612 , and NUR 630 .