MASTER RESOURCE OUTLINE

Credits: 6 (3 lecture; 3 clinical lab)

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Corequisite: NRSG 620

Degree: DNP

DNP Essentials: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII

Graduate Program Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

 

Course Description:

This graduate nursing course focuses on comprehensive assessment, intervention and preventive care for midlife families in primary health care settings. Recognizing and valuing the holistic nature of individuals within families, this course will include content on the physiological, pathophysiological, psychological, developmental, sociocultural, and spiritual primary health care needs of midlife families.

 

Course Objectives:

  1. Employ effective communication and collaboration skills in providing preventive care, treatment, and advocacy for midlife families with emphasis on needs in the rural primary care
  1. Assess and interpret individual and family responses to primary health care issues, guided by evidence based practice and interdisciplinary
  1. Formulate healthcare strategies, guided by identified concepts and perspectives, for treatment, health promotion, and preventive primary care of midlife
  1. Disseminate findings from evidence based interventions for disease prevention and treatment of primary health care needs of midlife
  1. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing strategies used to provide primary for midlife
  1. Incorporate knowledge about culture and ethnicity into the development, implementation and evaluation of nursing

 

Recommended Clinical Experiences:

  • Practice Immersion Experiences afford the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the essentials and specialty requirements necessary to demonstrate competency in an area of specialized nursing practice.

 

Approved by GAAC: 10/31/11; amended 11/19/12; amended 2/3/17; 4/26/19

Approved by Faculty: 4/9/12; modified 1/7/2013; 2/13/17; 5/2/19