Family Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing I Practicum

3 credits

In this precepted family nurse practitioner primary care course, didactic learning is applied in clinical settings with focus on optimal health promotion for diverse populations. A biopsychosocial framework informs clinical decision making while considering health information technology and evidence-based, cost-effective principles. Students engage in assessment, clinical reasoning process, routine health maintenance, education, and management of common primary health concerns while considering health inequities, bias, structural racism, gender, ableism, and social determinants of health. Students will demonstrate person-centered, trauma-informed, ethical, and humanistic care in the advanced practice nursing role. Learning is facilitated through faculty and preceptor collaboration, seminars, and clinical documentation.