NURS 723 Primary Care III: Concentrated Family Practice
This course utilizes the Schuler Nurse Practitioner Practice Model and other nursing theories to focus on evidence-based health maintenance, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of specific diseases across the lifespan with an emphasis in family practice care. Students will acquire new knowledge of acute and chronic conditions across the lifespan. Students will continue to demonstrate increasing proficiency in assessment, diagnostic reasoning skills, differential diagnosis, laboratory and diagnostic test selection, performance, and interpretation, pharmaceutical therapies, and evidence-based treatment plans of care with a concentration in family practice. Additionally, this course will identify and analyze social determinants of health across the lifespan related to plans of care.
Prerequisites
3 Graduate credits
Effective December 15, 2026 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Evaluate laboratory and diagnostic studies related to increasingly complex health problems of patients across the lifespan.
- Provide holistic, culturally sensitive care across the lifespan based on social determinants of health, knowledge of etiology, clinical findings, and differential diagnosis.
- Interpret patient information including diagnostic testing and identify patient-specific factors which determine pharmacologic management planning for patient across the lifespan.
- Advance proficiency regarding utilization of appropriate references and consultation to prescribe and implement pharmaceutical regimen(s) for patients across the lifespan.
- Provide patient-specific, culturally sensitive education regarding use of medication and anticipated effects including potential adverse effects for patients across the lifespan.
- Assess appropriate utilization of complementary therapies in conjunction with traditional medical protocols for patients across the lifespan.
- Continued ethical practice role development for the family nurse practitioner including ELSI (ethical, legal, and social implications) in genetics/genomic considerations.
- Describe social determinants of health and their impact on health equity/disparities.