Pediatric Nurse Practitioner: Acute Care Nursing II

This online course focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and evidence based management of children across the eintre pweiatric age spectrum, from birth to your adulthood, presenting with compleze acte and critical illnesses and cared for by pediatric nurse practitioners in acure care setrings. Students apply critical thinking and clinical decision-making competencies to formulate differential diagnoses and develop care management plans for the pediatric population and their families. A systems approach is emphasized for identificaiton and management of emerging health crises and organ dysfunction for children who are physiologically unstable, technologically dependent, and/or highly vulnerable to complications. In Acute Care II, students will invesitgate five systems as well as emergency management, toxicology, prinicples of sedation, and child maltreatment. Concepts include analysis of the continuum of care from disease prevention to critical care to restoration of maximum health and/or palliative care for children with acute and complex diseases and disorders. Concepts include cultrual, legal, ethical issues, interprofessional practice, safe practice, basic principles of quality improvement, and leadership strategies within the acute delivery system.