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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 Women’s Health Practice
ANPC804
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course introduces the student to the professional role of the women’s health nurse practitioner, 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.
ANPC805
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the first in a series of two sequential didactic and three sequential clinical practicum courses, lays the foundation for the women’s health care management process and the care of women across the lifespan. It prepares students to assume professional roles and responsibilities in the management of normal and common health pattern variations pertaining to gynecological care. There are at least 0.5 credits (5 clock hours) of pharmacology content. Emphasis is on family-centered, community-based healthcare for diverse client systems.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning women’s health care to enhance, modify, or support the health patterns of women across the lifespan who seek gynecological or family planning services.
- Demonstrate knowledge of women’s health care management with focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of outcomes for women across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for women’s health 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.
- Demonstrate the ability to prescribe appropriate medications for women’s gynecological health.
- Critique current research findings related to the health care of women across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the advanced nursing practice role of the women’s health care practitioner in the operationalization of the core competencies and standards of care for women across the lifespan.
Advanced Women’s Health Practicum I
ANPC806
Four (4) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
120 Clinical Hours – 12hours/week
This course is the first in a series of three sequential clinical practicum courses in Women’s Health Care. The student will engage in comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and management of women’s health care across the lifespan. The student will assume a professional practice role and responsibility for management of normal and common health pattern variations pertaining to gynecological 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 women’s health care to enhance, modify, or support the health patterns of women across the lifespan who seek gynecological and/or family planning services.
- Demonstrate competence in assessment and diagnosis of normal and common health pattern variations pertaining to gynecological care of women across the life span.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of women’s health care.
- Demonstrate competence in the management of women’s health care with a focus on nursing interventions and evaluation of out comes for women across the lifespan.
- Apply nursing and related research findings in the selection and design of therapeutic nursing interventions and measurable outcome criteria.
- Demonstrate competence in effective written and verbal communication in the advanced nursing practice role.
- Demonstrate competence in the advanced nursing practice role and in the operationalization of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) women’s health and core competencies to care for women across the lifespan.
ANPC840
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course, the second in a sequence of two sequential didactic, prepares students to assume professional roles in the care of normal antepartal and postpartum women and those with health pattern variations with an at risk pregnancy. Emphasis is placed on the collaborative management of interventions to achieve desired outcomes during pregnancy. Included are at least 0.5 credits (5 clock hours) of pharmacology content. Students use scholarly inquiry to further develop their practice knowledge. Research related to normal and at-risk client systems is applied.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning women’s health care of normal and at-risk client systems experiencing common health pattern variations during the antepartum and postpartum period.
- Demonstrate knowledge of women’s health care management with focus on interventions and evaluation of outcomes for normal antepartal and at-risk client systems during the antepartum and postpartum period.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills for women’s health 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 normal and at-risk client systems during the antepartum and postpartum period.
- Demonstrate the ability to prescribe appropriate medications for the antepartal and postpartal woman.
- Critique current research findings as related to women’s health care management for normal and at-risk client systems during the antepartal and postpartal period.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the advanced nursing practice role of the women’s health care practitioner to operationalize core competencies and standards of care for normal and at-risk antepartal and postpartal client systems.
Advanced Women’s Health Practicum II
ANPC841
Five (5) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
150 Clinical Hours – 15hours/week
This course, the second in a series of three sequential clinical courses in women’s health care, prepares the students to assume the professional practice roles in the care of normal antepartal women and those with health pattern variations with an at-risk pregnancy. Emphasis is placed on the collaborative management of interventions to achieve desired outcomes during pregnancy. Students use scholarly inquiry to further develop their practice. Evidence-based research as related to normal and at-risk client systems is applied.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate competence in the assessment and diagnosis in the planning of the women’s health and care for antepartal and postpartal women and those with common health pattern variations.
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for the planning of care of the women’s health care clients to enhance, modify, or support the health patterns of antepartal and postpartal women who seek obstetrical services.
- Demonstrate competence in women’s health care management with focus on advanced nursing practice interventions and evaluation of outcomes for antepartal and postpartal women.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of women’s health care of antepartal and postpartal women.
- Critique current research findings as related to women’s health care management for antepartal and postpartal women.
- Demonstrate competence of the advanced nursing practice role of the women’s health care practitioner in the operationalization of the core competencies and standards of care for antepartal and postpartal women.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication in the advanced nursing practice role.
Advanced Women’s Health Practicum III
ANPC842
Eight (8) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
240 Clinical Hours – 24hours/week
This course, the third in a sequence of three, prepares the student for the fully integrated practice of women’s health care to include primary care of episodic illnesses throughout the lifespan. The professional, social, political, legal, ethical, economic, and financial factors that affect women’s health care practice are analyzed.
Objectives:
- Integrate theoretical perspectives of nursing science and related sciences as a framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating women’s health care for client systems utilizing the women’s health care management process.
- Demonstrate competence in the women’s health care management process with focus on selection/design of interventions and measurable outcome criteria for the evaluation of outcomes of client systems.
- Demonstrate competence in critical thinking and effective communication skills in the selection/design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions for women’s health care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Engage in scholarly inquiry to refine women’s health advanced nursing practice.
- Demonstrate competence in the advanced nursing practice role of women’s health nurse practitioner to operationalize standards of care and NONPF core competencies for client systems.
- Analyze implications of legal, ethical, and financial accountability from the perspective of women’s health practice within various environmental contexts.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
Women’s Health in a Contemporary Global Society
ANPC819
Three (3) Graduate Quarter Credit Hours
This course is designed to present a global perspective of selected contemporary physiological, psychological, and sociocultural issues and concepts associated with women’s health. Variations in women’s health conditions are discussed from a diagnostic, treatment, and intervention perspective.
Objectives:
- Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Analyze the adaptation of women throughout the lifespan using selected theories.
- Analyze the impact of physiological, psychological, and sociocultural evolution of selected alterations effecting women’s health status.
- Critique current research findings related to women’s health issues.
- Contrast the historical and contemporary issues found in women’s health from a global perspective.
- Analyze population specific interventions and their application/use to women’s health issues.
