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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6201
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2008-05-28
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HDC-006201-10000
- Contact Person: Deb Williams
- Phone: x1169
- Email: dewillia@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6201
- Full Title: Primary Care of Adults I
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): PC: Adults I
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: NGR 6140, 6121, 6135, 6800, 6080, 6199, 6001C (or NGR 6001)
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: The didactic basis for diagnosing and managing common and acute health conditions of the adult. Students will compile/analyze data and develop/implement a plan of care. Concepts of health promotion/health maintenance are integrated throughout the course.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Provide a preliminary course for Nurse Practitioner concentrations in primary care and a non-practicum course for other concentrations in Nursing Education, Oncology, and Psych/Mental Health.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required sequence in the primary care concentrations.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) ARNP and Ph.D.
- Objectives: At the completion of this course, the student will:
1. Identify physical findings and aspects of subjective and objective data associated with acute health care problems of adults.
2. Analyze data to develop a differential diagnosis for common and acute health problems of adults.
3. Determine appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostic studies for common and acute health care problems.
4. Develop a plan of care consistent with results of data analysis that includes the physical, psychosocial and culture needs/resources of the patient as well as anticipatory guidance and educational needs
5. Appropriately determine pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies for common and acute health problems of the adult.
6. Apply principles of collaboration with other health care professionals.
7. Incorporate community resources into a plan of care.
8. Function within the parameters of the FNP role and legal scope of practice.
9. Demonstrate the ability to critique research literature appropriate to evidence based practice.
10. Us pertinent standards of care in diagnosing and treating adults with common and acute health problems
- Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this course, the student will:
1. Identify physical findings and aspects of subjective and objective data associated with acute health care problems of adults.
2. Analyze data to develop a differential diagnosis for common and acute health problems of adults.
3. Determine appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostic studies for common and acute health care problems.
4. Develop a plan of care consistent with results of data analysis that includes the physical, psychosocial and culture needs/resources of the patient as well as anticipatory guidance and educational needs
5. Appropriately determine pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies for common and acute health problems of the adult.
6. Apply principles of collaboration with other health care professionals.
7. Incorporate community resources into a plan of care.
8. Function within the parameters of the FNP role and legal scope of practice.
9. Demonstrate the ability to critique research literature appropriate to evidence based practice.
10. Us pertinent standards of care in diagnosing and treating adults with common and acute health problems
- Major Topics: Materials to include epidemiology, risk factors, clinical presentation, appropriate diagnostic testing, preventative strategies, management strategies, pharmacological and non-pharmacologica interventionsl, referral/collaboration and follow up for the following conditions:
Acute conditions of the eye and ear
Acute conditions of the respiratory system
Acute conditions of the cardiac system
Acute conditions of the neurological system
Acute conditions of the renal system
Acute conditions of the integument
Acute conditions of the endocrine system
Acute conditions of the gastrointestinal system
Acute conditions of the genitourinary system
Acute conditions of the muscloskeletal system
Acute mental health interventions
- Textbooks: Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th edition, Braunwald et al., Eds., McGraw-Hill (available on-line from HSC Library)
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.