Primary Care of Families: Health Promotions of Infants, Children and Adolescents

This course introduces the theoretical, developmental, and clinical issues relevant to family nurse practitioner care of infants, children and adolescents. The focus of this course is health promotion and disease prevention, and the individual, familial, cultural, community and societal factors that influence health. It is designed to enable students to develop the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge base for evidence-based practice as family nurse practitioners. Interventions by family nurse practitioners that promote optimal health and well-being are applied to commonly encountered issues of growth and development throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Social, political, economic, cultural, and legal-ethical issues that influence growth and development, access to care, inter-professional collaboration and utilization of health care are explored. Health behavior models, risk reduction models and family theories are introduced and incorporated into health promotion interventions. A clinical component allows students to apply theoretical foundations in clinical settings.