NURS 7719 - AGPCNP III: GERONTOLOGY & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

[7 Credits]

Adult-Gerontology PCNP Ill: Gerontology & Reproductive Health is the third in a series of courses preparing the student for the role as an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP). The course builds upon prior coursework in advanced nursing theory and practice. The course focuses on reproductive health care issues and needs of adults across the continuum of, primary, chronic, community, and long-term care settings. Emphasis is on the integration of major health concepts and evidence based therapies required in the development, implementation and evaluation of gerontology and gender specific reproductive primary health care. The course will emphasize geriatric assessment and geriatric syndromes with an understanding of normal age related changes and how these contribute to geriatric syndrome development. The course will provide the student with and. understanding of the atypical presentation of disease in the older adult across settings of care, gender, cultural differences, and age cohorts. There is further development in the skills of clinical reasoning and decision making, ethical practice, and interprofessional communication. Clinical experiences across a wide variety of clinical settings will allow the student to gain increased clinical expertise with older adults and in reproductive health.