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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6305
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-09-17
- Department: NUR
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 06201-10000
- Contact Person: Barbara REdding
- Phone: 49236
- Email: bredding@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6305
- Full Title: Primary Care: Children
- 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): Primary Care: Children
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: NGR 6001, 6121, 6140, and 6199
- Corequisites: NGR 6305L
- Course Description: Focus on the primary health care of children from birth to pre-adolescent. Health maintenance and the management of common acute illnesses are included.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: The course is a required course in Nurse Practitione program focused on children. Required for certification.
- 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? A part of the pediatric nurse practitioner specialty.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Course offered as NGR 6305; inadvertently deleted.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Doctoral degree with certiication as a pediatric nurse practioner.
- Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student
will be able to:
1. Obtain a comprehensive pediatric health history.
2. Perform and interpret appropriate developmental testing for children from birth to age 12 and sensitively communicate the results to the child and family.
3. Perform an age appropriate physical examination.
4. Understand and perform health maintenance activities that are specific for the client's age.
5. Analyze data from the history and physical exam and develop an appropriate clinical diagnosis and management plan for individual clients.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of age specific anticipatory guidance for children and their families.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of common episodic illnesses and their management that occur in children from birth to age 12.
8. Recognize and appropriately refer clients whose health problems fall outside the scope of a nurse practitioner's practice.
9. Utilize research findings in the completion of a scholarly paper.
10. Provide care that is respectful of the child and parent(s), family focused, culturally appropriate, and addresses the needs of both the child and the parent.
- Learning Outcomes: same as above
- Major Topics: Health Maintenance, Health Promotion
Screening and Health Risk Identification
Growth and Development
Parenting and Anticipatory Guidance
Dermatologic
Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Cardiovascular
Hematological
Upper and Lower Respiratory
Gastrointestinal
Gynecologic and Genitourinary
Neurological
Musculoskeletal
Accidents and Emergencies, Abuse and Neglect
- Textbooks: REQUIRED BOOK:
Burns, C.E, Brady, M.A., Dunn, A.M, Starr, N.B. (2004). Pediatric primary care: A handbook for nurse practitioners. (3rd Ed.), Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders
RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
Boynton, R., Dunn, E. & Stephens, G. (1998). Manual of ambulatory pediatrics (4th Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott.
Committee on Infectious Diseases, American Academy of Pediatrics. 2006 Red Book: Report of the committee on infectious disease (27th Ed.) Elk Grove, Il.
Duderstadt, K.G. (2006). Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier
Richardson, B. (2006). P
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.