NURS 6128 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Primary Care Diagnosis & Management III: Seminar

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on discussing implementation of PNP role in managing and negotiating the healthcare system with patients and monitoring and ensuring quality healthcare practice.

CREDIT AND TIME ALLOCATION

Credit Hour Allocation: 1 Semester Credit Hour
Clock Hour Allocation: 1 Clock Hour Class (15 hours class)

PREREQUISITES

NURS 6428 PNP Diagnosis & Management: Concept and Theory II
NURS 6429 PNP Diagnosis & Management II: Clinical Application

Concurrent
NURS 6828 PNP Diagnosis & Management III: Preceptorship

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Evaluate patient–centered plans of care for quality improvement in primary care.
2. Evaluate ethical/legal issues which occur in the primary care setting.
3. Devise ways to enhance interprofessional partnerships to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, quality health care for patients and families.
4. Design local, regional, and national strategies for affecting the political arena and promoting the profession of advanced practice nursing.
5. Critique the economic issues that influence and/or define advanced practice in primary healthcare.
6. Devise potential strategies to advance the role of the NP in primary healthcare.

CLINICAL OBJECTIVES

N/A

CLASSROOM ATTENDANCE

Attendance in class is an expectation of each student.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

1. If written assignments are made in a course they are required.
2. Students are expected to submit written work on the scheduled date and time.
3. The student must notify the course coordinator prior to the scheduled due date and time if they are unable to submit the written work as scheduled. Failure to make this notification in advance will result in a "zero" for that written work.
4. If the excuse is accepted as reasonable and necessary, arrangements will be made for an alternative due date and time.
5. Each student is responsible for making sure that he or she has completed the written work prior to submission.
6. Late work will be accepted with consequences as outlined per course syllabi.

APA GUIDELINES

Effective Fall 2010, the APA Publication Manual 6th edition is required for use in all nursing school programs.

SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY

Students are expected to be above reproach in all scholastic activities. Students who engage in scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and dismissal from the university. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." Regents Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22.

ADA ACCOMMODATIONS

Any student seeking ADA Accommodations under the American with Disabilities Act should contact the Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services within the first week of the semester so that appropriate accommodations may be arranged. A Request for Accommodations (Form 100) must be completed. These forms are available in the Office for Students Room: NS 1.106.