Course Title: NRSG 657 FNP Advanced Clinical III

Credits: 5

Semester Offered: Fall

Prerequisites: NRSG 653, NRSG 656

Degree: DNP

AACN Core Competencies for Advanced-Level Nursing Education: 1.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.6, 4.2

MRJCON DNP Program Learning Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10

 

Course Description:

This is the third family nurse practitioner course where students continue to advance and apply knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired in the prerequisite FNP courses in the clinical setting. Students provide culturally competent, holistic care to increasingly complex families and patients throughout the lifespan.

Catalog Description:

The third of our FNP clinical courses. Students apply knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired in the required prerequisite FNP courses in the clinical setting. Students provide culturally competent, holistic care to increasingly complex families and patients throughout the lifespan.

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Reflect on personal communication and documentation with patients, families, care-team, and faculty with respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion of team-based interactions.
  2. Incorporate appropriate advanced assessment skills and diagnostics in clinical practice that include normal age changes from acute and chronic medical disease processes including mood disorders, substance abuse, and cultural health.
  3. Utilize advanced clinical judgement skills in the development of a comprehensive evidence-based plan paying close attention to cultural, spiritual, and sexual preferences.
  4. Demonstrates accountability in all professional interactions.
  5. Practice with minimal supervision managing increasingly complex patients across the lifespan.

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to do a thorough patient visit incorporating the criteria defined in the rubric for the clinical OSCE. (CLO 1-5)
  2. Midterm and final self and faculty clinical evaluation providing an example of ability to communicate as an advanced level nurse. (CLO 1-5)
  3. SOAP notes- complete six SOAP notes. (CLO 1-5)
  4. Clinical presentation of complex patient care visit. (CLO 1-4)

AACN Competencies [AACN Essentials, 2021]

This course introduces:

2.5i Prioritize risk mitigation strategies to prevent or reduce adverse outcomes.

4.2h Recognize opportunities for innovation and changes in practice.

This course develops:

1.3e Becoming competent in critical analysis of the current and emerging evidence that influences practice.

3.3e Advocate for interventions that maximize cost effective, accessible, and equitable resources.

2.5j Develop evidence-based strategies to prevent or reduce adverse outcomes.

This course advances:

1.3d Integrate foundational and advanced specialty knowledge into clinical reasoning.

2.4f Employ context driven, advanced reasoning to the diagnostic and decision-making process.

3.6g Participate in ethical decision making that includes diversity, equity, and inclusion in advanced preparedness to protect populations.

4.2j Articulate inconsistencies between practice policies and best evidence.

2.5j Develop evidence-based strategies to prevent or reduce adverse outcomes.

3.3c Analyze cost-benefit of selected population-based interventions.

Curricular Threads addressed in this course:

    • Equity and Inclusion
    • Diversity
    • Cultural Sensitivity
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • Communication
    • Ethics
    • Clinical Judgement
    • Mental Health

Recommended Content:

Writing a concise SOAP. Coding/Billing. Wellness and episodic care management across the lifespan. Case presentations and clinical presentations.

Recommended Clinical Experiences/Sites:

Family practice, women's health, urgent care, internal medicine, and some specialty (less than 45 hours recommended).

 

Approved by GAAC: 12/1/23

Approved by Faculty: 12/13/23