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Women’s Health Specialty Courses
Primary Care of Episodic Illness for Women
ANPC809
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course along with ANPC 839 Primary Care of Women of Episodic Illness Practicum develops a foundation for nurse-midwifery/women’s health students to provide primary care for women. Emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking skills for application within the nurse midwifery/women’s health management process in primary care.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives in nursing science and related sciences in the nurse-midwifery/women’s health care management process with well women.
- Analyze symptoms, physical findings, potential for sequelae and teaching needs of well women with health pattern variations.
- Use critical thinking to determine situations for referral and consultation to other health professionals.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health patterns for women across the lifespan.
- Critique current research findings related to the primary care of women.
- Analyze the advanced nursing practice role as it relates to nurse-midwifery/primary care of women.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
Primary Care of Episodic Illness for Women Practicum
ANPC839
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
90 Clinical Hours – 9hours/week
This course along with ANPC 809 Primary Care of Women of Episodic Illness develops a foundation for nurse-midwifery/women’s health students to provide primary care for women. Emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking skills for application within the nurse midwifery/women’s health management process in primary care.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives in nursing science and related sciences in the nurse-midwifery/women’s health care management process with well women.
- Analyze symptoms, physical findings, potential for sequelae and teaching needs of well women with health pattern variations.
- Use critical thinking to determine situations for referral and consultation to other health professionals.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health patterns for women across the lifespan.
- Critique current research findings related to the primary care of women.
- Analyze the advanced nursing practice role as it relates to nurse-midwifery/primary care of women.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
Conceptual Framework for Nurse-Midwifery Practice
ANPC810
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course introduces the student to the professional role of the nurse-midwife, the care management process, utilization of paradigms of wellness and health patterns, environmental context, and communication pertinent to nurse-midwifery practice.
Objectives:
- Analyze the components of the conceptual framework for advanced nursing practice role of the women’s health care practitioner.
- Integrate theoretical perspectives from nursing science and related sciences to examine stress as human physiological and psychological responses to health pattern variations of client systems in a women’s health care practitioner practice.
- Use critical thinking to apply the concepts of health status, health behaviors, and health promotion to prenatal health patterns, environmental context, and client system outcomes within the context of international, national, and regional epidemiology.
- Incorporate therapeutic interventions, quality assurance, and collaboration in a women’s health care practitioner management.
- Analyze aspects of communication pertinent to women’s health as components of effective interviewing and documenting a family health history.
- Interpret research relative to women’s health and women’s health care practitioner practice.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
ANPC814
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the first in a series of four sequential courses, lays the foundation for the nurse-midwifery management process and for women across the lifespan and prepares students to assume professional practice roles and responsibilities in managing common health pattern variations pertaining to primary care, gynecological and antepartum care. Emphasis is on family-centered, community-based health care for diverse client systems.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning nurse-midwifery care to enhance, modify, or support the health patterns of women across the lifespan who seek gynecological or family planning services or antepartum care.
- Demonstrate competence in nurse-midwifery care management with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for women across the lifespan and during the antepartum period.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for nurse-midwifery care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health patterns for women across the lifespan and during the antepartum period.
- Critique current research findings as related to nurse-midwifery care management for women across the lifespan and during the antepartum period.
- Demonstrate the advanced nursing practice role of the nurse-midwife to operationalize standards of care for women across the lifespan and during the antepartum period.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
ANPC815
Five (5) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
150 Clinical Hours – 15hours/week Application of tenets learned in Midwifery I.
ANPC816
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the second in a sequence of four, prepares students to assume professional practice roles in the care of women with health pattern variations with an at risk pregnancy and selected gynecologic problems. Emphasis is placed on the collaborative management of interventions to achieve desired outcomes during pregnancy, parturition. Students use scholarly inquiry to further develop their practice. Research related to at-risk client systems is applied. The course expands on the history of nurse-midwifery as it impacts on professional role issues.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning nurse-midwifery care of at-risk client systems experiencing common health pattern variations during the antepartum, intrapartum, post partum period, and selected gynecological conditions.
- Demonstrate competence in nurse-midwifery care management with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for at-risk client systems during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum period, and selected gynecological conditions.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for nurse-midwifery care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health patterns for at-risk client systems during the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum period and selected gynecological conditions.
- Critique current research findings as related to nurse-midwifery care management for at-risk client systems include antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and selected gynecologic conditions.
- Demonstrate the advanced nursing practice role of the nurse-midwife to operationalize standards of care for at risk client systems.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
- Contrast the historical and contemporary practice of nurse-midwifery in the United States, the structure and function of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and professional role issues for nurse-midwives.
ANPC817
Eight (8) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
240 Clinical Hours – 24hours/week Application of tenets learned in Midwifery II.
ANPC867
Four (4) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the third in a sequence of four, prepares the student to assume professional practice roles and responsibilities in the care of women with common health pattern variations pertaining to normal and at risk pregnancy and parturition, normal and at-risk neonates. Emphasis is placed on the collaborative management of interventions to achieve desired outcomes during the postpartum period. Research related to at-risk client systems is applied.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning nurse-midwifery care of at-risk client systems experiencing common health pattern variations during the post partum period.
- Demonstrate competence in nurse-midwifery care management with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for at-risk client systems of postpartum women and their neonates.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for nurse-midwifery care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health for at-risk client systems in nurse-midwifery care management.
- Critique current research findings as related to nurse-midwifery care management for at-risk client systems.
- Demonstrate the advanced nursing practice role of the nurse-midwife to operationalize standards of care for postpartum women and their neonates.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
ANPC868
Nine (9) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
270 Clinical Hours – 27hours/week Application of tenets learned in Midwifery III.
ANPC877
Two (2) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the last in a sequence of four, prepares the student for the fully integrated practice of nurse-midwifery. The social, political, legal, ethical, economic and financial factors that affect nurse-midwifery practice are analyzed.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning nurse-midwifery care for client systems in nurse-midwifery care management.
- Demonstrate competence in nurse-midwifery care management with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for client systems.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for nurse-midwifery care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Design advanced nursing interventions and client system outcome criteria to promote, maintain, or restore health and palliation for client systems in nurse-midwifery care management.
- Engage in scholarly inquiry to clarify and refine nursing practice.
- Demonstrate the advanced nursing practice role of the nurse-midwife to operationalize standards of care for client systems.
- Analyze implications of legal, ethical, and financial accountability from the perspective of nurse-midwifery practice within various environmental contexts.
ANPC878
Nine (9) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
270 Clinical Hours – 27hours/week Application of tenets learned in the Midwifery IV.
