NRP 671L

Acute Care Residency I

Supervised clinical practicum in acute care designed to provide the beginning to intermediate Acute Care Nurse Practitioner student with practice experience to develop the skills of assessment, diagnostic reasoning, development of differential diagnoses, identification of health / healthcare system risks with appropriate interventions, develop and integrate specific disease management plans and refine oral case presentation skills. Acute care settings that provide exposure to a patient population with diverse medical and surgical diagnoses will be targeted. The student will have the opportunity to refine the integration and synthesis of theory, clinical research, advanced therapeutics and decision making as it relates to both acute and chronic illness states. A total of 300 hours (~15-20 hrs/wk) will be completed

Units: 3.0

Hours: 0 classroom + 3 lab/studio