Individual and family responses to common health problems are explored. Concepts of health promotion and maintenance, anticipatory guidance, health education, behavioral management strategies, and family focused health care are emphasized, together with selection of nursing strategies of care management within the scope of primary health care practice. Additionally this course provides a theoretical and conceptual foundation for primary care decision-making for nurse practitioners functioning in advanced nursing practice roles. Course Organization A lecture course with involvement of cross-departmental faculty, clinicians and research colleagues from UWMC and other Puget Sound health care facilities. The course coordinator and individual guest lecturers determine preparatory readings.
Study guides are available for each topic.
Specific areas of health concerns are addressed each quarter. Field study to be taken concurrently by nurse practitioner students. This is the third of a three series course. This course consists of three modules. Module G is titled Psychosocial and Behavioral Problems in Primary Care and Modules H and I are titled Complex Primary Care Problems of Adults.