Advanced Practice Nursing: Musculoskeletal Specialty II Across the Lifespan

3 credits · School of Nursing

This course builds on Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Care I, and is designed to provide the advanced practice nursing student with specialized knowledge needed to diagnose and manage selected musculoskeletal conditions across the lifespan, with a primary emphasis on care of the adolescent and adult. The course will address both outpatient management and operative interventions for musculoskeletal conditions. Office based procedures to treat musculoskeletal conditions will be included. This distance-based course has one required multiday campus-based session designed primarily to solidify psychomotor and diagnostic reasoning skills. Prerequisite: Nursing 821 Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Care I or instructor permission.