Course Description
This course continues to expand the knowledge of health assessment principles specific to the
role of the FNP, with a focus on the
... [Show More] healthcare needs of women and families throughout
reproductive and childrearing years. Students will further develop their skills related to health
promotion, prevention of illness, diagnosis, and management of health problems commonly
experienced. Care strategies will include patient education, protocol development, follow-up,
and referral through a clinical practicum experience in a precepted primary care setting.
COs
1. Demonstrate effective leadership skills that support relationship-based caring with a
family-centered focus to promote quality advanced practice nursing. (PO 2)
2. Identify current ethical and legal issues concerning the care of infants, children,
adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO 6)
3. Apply current evidence in health promotion, health protection, disease prevention, and
primary care for infants, children, adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO
1)
4. Apply developmental, cultural, and family theory to health promotion, health protection,
disease prevention, and primary care for infants, children, adolescents, women, and
child-bearing families. (PO 1)
5. Promote safe and quality patient outcomes in a teaching-coaching function through
integration of developmentally appropriate anticipatory guidance in care of infants,
children, adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO 2)
6. Identify professional organizations active in the promotion of health for women and
children. (PO 10)
7. Utilize principles of nursing informatics and technologies to plan, document, and
professionally communicate in the care of infants, children, adolescents, women, and
child-bearing families. (PO 11)
8. Incorporate patients’ cultural preferences, values, health beliefs, spirituality, and
behaviors into a unique and relationship-based, holistic plan of care for infants, children,
adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO 1)
9. Create an appropriate and holistic plan of care for common primary care presentations in
infants, children, adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO 1)
10.Engage in routine appropriate inter-professional collaboration in caring for infants,
children, adolescents, women, and child-bearing families. (PO 10)
11.Reflect on personal and professional growth toward achieving competence as a family
nurse practitioner. (PO 5, 10)
Program Outcomes
The MSN program outcomes are aligned with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
publication, The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2011). Upon completion of the MSN
degree program, the graduate will be able to:
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1. Practice safe, high-quality advanced nursing care based on concepts and knowledge from
nursing and related disciplines.
2. Construct processes for leading and promoting quality improvement and safety in advanced
nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
3. Use contemporary communication modalities effectively in advanced nursing roles.
4. Evaluate the design, implementation and outcomes of strategies developed to meet
healthcare needs.
5. Develop a plan for lifelong personal and professional growth that integrates professional
values regarding scholarship, service and global engagement.
6. Apply legal, ethical and human-caring principles to situations in advanced nursing practice.
7. Design patient-centered care models and delivery systems using the best available scientific
evidence.
8. Manage human, fiscal and physical resources to achieve and support individual and
organizational goals.
9. Compose a plan for systematic inquiry and dissemination of findings to support advanced
nursing practice, patient-care innovation, and the nursing profession.
10. Collaborate interprofessionally in research, education, practice, health policy and leadership
to improve population health outcomes.
11. Apply principles of informatics to manage data [Show Less]