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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7182
Tracking Number - 1814
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-05-05
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-11-04
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 6210-000-0
- Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
- Phone: 9749229
- Email: jkarshme@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7182
- Full Title: Minor Surgical Procedures for the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Credit Hours: 1
- 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): Min Surg Procd Adv Pract
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Course Description: Basics of minor surgical procedures for the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: To support nurse practitioner’s skills
- 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? This content is not in current curriculum
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, once
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Graduate degree in Nursing
- Objectives: 1. Perform and demonstrate different suturing and tying techniques.
2. Demonstrate local and regional wound infiltration and digital block with anesthesia.
3. Demonstrate incision and drainage of a local abscess.
4. Perform and demonstrate different biopsy techniques.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Perform and demonstrate different suturing and tying techniques.
2. Demonstrate local and regional wound infiltration and digital block with anesthesia.
3. Demonstrate incision and drainage of a local abscess.
4. Perform and demonstrate different biopsy techniques.
- Major Topics: 1. Suturing and tying – planning and wound revision, Interrupted simple, running, vertical and horizontal mattress, primary, secondary and tertiary intention, one-hand/two-hand, subcuticular sutures, horizontal mattress technique, vertical sutures.
2. Local, regional, digit anesthesia - dosing and technique.
3. Biopsy techniques - punch,shave,incisional.
4. Incision and Drainage.
5. Musculoskeletal injection and arthrocentesis (knee, shoulder, elbow, piriformis, SI joint, levator scapulae, bursae)
- Textbooks: Bull, M. & Gardiner, P. (2004) Surgical Procedures in Primary Care: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.