NURS 725 Primary Care V: Concentrated Primary Care and Specialty
This final clinical course is the culminating practicum experience in the Doctor of Nursing Practice¿Family Nurse Practitioner program. The course emphasizes the integration of advanced knowledge, skills, and judgment in the holistic care of clients across the lifespan with complex, multi-system illnesses. Students will demonstrate mastery in assessment, diagnosis, and management of diverse conditions, with a focus on applying evidence-based principles, laboratory and diagnostic proficiency, and advanced differential reasoning.
Students will analyze health promotion and maintenance needs for individuals and families, develop individualized care plans that incorporate social determinants of health, and apply specialized practices within the family nurse practitioner role. The course also highlights the integration of genetic/genomic, pharmacogenetic, and environmental exposure information to support personalized and patient-centered care.
Prerequisites
2 Graduate credits
Effective May 7, 2026 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Analyze needs related to health promotion and maintenance for patients across the lifespan with complex multi-system illnesses.
- Anticipate and demonstrate advanced skills with laboratory and diagnostic studies related to multi-system illnesses in patients throughout the lifespan.
- Demonstrate high level of proficiency utilizing evidenced based principles in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of multi-system illnesses in patients throughout the lifespan.
- Increase knowledge of specialized practices within the family nurse practitioner role.
- Provide holistic primary care clients across the lifespan with complex illness or specialty care that is based on knowledge of etiology, clinical findings, differential diagnosis, and nursing theory.
- Students will apply their knowledge of social determinants of health through an individualized care plan development process.
- Students will be able to apply individualized genetic/genomic, pharmacogenetic, and environmental exposure information in delivering personalized plans of care.