Pediatric Primary Care for Family Nurse Practitioners

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200. Prepares family advanced practice nursing students to assume responsibility for health promotion, illness prevention, and maintenance and management of common developmental, behavioral, acute and chronic health problems of infants, children and adolescents in primary health-care settings. Exploration of pediatric conditions and diseases, etiology and incidence, clinical findings, differential diagnoses, pharmacologic and treatment management, complications, and family and child centered anticipatory guidance. Examination of the pediatric primary health delivery model utilizing evidence-based knowledge, practice protocols, consultation/collaboration, and referrals to community resources. Letter grading.