Students develop and present a project demonstrating integration and proficiency in all nursing program competencies. Research findings are used. Evaluates multidimensional health care client needs with nursing interventions throughout the life span and along the health-illness continuum. Focus is on knowledge, concepts, and clinical judgments needed in advanced practice nursing. A nalysis of mechanistic and regulatory deficits in altered physiological states.
Emphasis is on foundations of disease as the basis for clinical intervention.
Analysis of the general systems approach as a basis for developing a theoretical framework for nursing practice. Students develop models for clinical nursing practice incorporating the concepts of health promotion, restoration, and maintenance. Focus is on interviewing and examining adult and pediatric clients to diagnose potential and actual health problems. Focuses on pharmacotherapeutics and pharmacokinetics of drugs used with clients in advanced nursing practice. Examines the opportunities, obligations, and limitations the nursing profession has in formulating health care policies.