NURSE 6723: Foundations of Pediatric Health

Course Description

This course provides a foundation for students to assume advanced practice nursing roles in health promotion, disease prevention, and the diagnosis and management of health and illness in newborn, infant, child and adolescent populations within the family context. Therapeutic strategies for pediatric preventive care, behavioral health, common pediatric office-based procedures, pediatric prescribing practices, and the most common health problems managed in pediatric primary care will be developed.