Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Acute Care I: Advanced Procedures

This course offers students opportunities to learn advance practice skills asynchronously, in a bi-weekly synchronous seminar with virtual simulations, and, during the course, in a 2.5-day immersion experience focusing on procedural skill development for the preparation of acutecare pediatric nurse practitioners. This course accompanies the advanced practice Acute Care Pediatric Nursing I course. In the immersion experience, students will learn the principles of each technical skill, practice the skills using high tech mannequins and equipment in the Clinical Learning Simulation Center(CSLC), and then demonstrate competency in each of the assigned skills. This course will focus on the skills needed for six systems presented in Acute Care Pediatric Nursing I, as well as skills specific to pediatric oncology. Compassionate communication techniques while speaking with children and their parents before, during, and after procedures will be practiced by the students during each procedure performed in the CSLC.