APN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care III

Utilizing a holistic, nursing, and evidence-based framework and incorporating a health disparities model, the course builds on prior clinical and theoretical courses to enable the acute care advanced practice nurse to analyze complex health problems of diverse patients who present to the acute care setting as well as home, rehabilitative and ambulatory care settings. Acute care nurse practitioner students engage in the comprehensive management of patients with a variety of complex critical illnesses and/or chronic disease. Students develop and refine hypothetic deductive reasoning and knowledge of advanced Pathophysiology to plan, monitor, and implement therapeutic interventions for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Selection of the best nursing and medical interventions emphasizes a thorough review of the literature, incorporating advanced search strategies, analysis of methodologies, and critical appraisal of the literature. Research, patient preferences, and nursing experience are integrated in clinical decision making, management, and evaluation of patient-focused clinical outcomes.