NURS 621P Primary Care Nursing I Practicum

General

• Perform risk factor analyses based on social, cultural, familial, occupational, and lifestyle history when assessing health promotion needs across the lifespan.
• Develop basic skills in performing and documenting preventive and problem oriented histories and physical examinations for adults in the context of primary care.
• Demonstrate oral case presentation skills.
• In collaboration with a preceptor complete an appropriate history and physical assessment, construct differential diagnoses, order, perform and interpret age, gender, and condition specific diagnostic tests and screening.
• In collaboration with a preceptor, implement evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention strategies and practice guidelines for select common acute health conditions to improve or maintain optimal health in adults.
• Implement theoretically and scientifically based, individualized, holistic, and culturally sensitive health maintenance and acute care plan
• In collaboration with the clinical preceptor, prescribes based on pharmacological and physiological principles, as well as state and federal regulations.
• Analyze role issues for the nurse practitioner arising in the clinical setting.