Laboratory experiences provide opportunities to practice on infants and young children. Emphasizes health promotion, screening, and disease prevention in primary care. Students examine individual and family wellness, models of risk assessment and behavior change, health promotion strategies, and barriers to achieving health. Age-related health risks are explored. Emphasis is on individual and family responses to common health problems, and the selection of nursing strategies within the scope of primary health care practice.
Content is taught in modules, and changes each quarter.
Explores clinical applications and therapeutic issues for selected drug categories commonly used in primary care settings and across age groups. Selected drug categories are defined by pharmacokinetics, indications for use, efficacy, therapeutic and adverse effects, monitoring parameters, dosing principles, and common drug interactions. Patient education and socio-economic and behavioral factors are emphasized. Seminar discussions relate to theory presented in the primary care management didactic course. Students engage in supervised clinical practice within selected primary health care settings on a weekly basis, two days per week each quarter.