NU - 772 Emergency Nurse Practitioner I

Credits: 6

This course broadens the students’ knowledge, skills, and clinical decision-making capabilities in managing the urgent and emergent health care needs of patients across the lifespan. Issues of age, gender, race, and culture are emphasized. Students will apply advanced health assessment, pathophysiology, pharmacotherapeutics, and non-pharmacotherapeutics in the development of differential diagnoses and plan of care. Systemic urgent and emergent needs of the pediatric population are also addressed. Maximizing resources, referrals, and consultation are discussed within the context of the interdisciplinary care team. Precepted clinical experiences provide opportunities for students to apply new knowledge to the evaluation, stabilization, intervention, and treatment of specific urgent and emergent conditions. 45 hours lecture/225 hours clinical

Prerequisite: NU 770 and NU 771