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NURS 6417 - Developmental Physiology for Advanced Neonatal and Pediatric Practice
Nurses Across the Lifespan
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P: Admission to NURS graduate
program or consent of instructor. Explores developmental changes in morphological processes
and normal and abnormal physiology in humans from conception through adolescence across the
lifespan, with emphasis on the neonate and pediatric patient.
NURS 6418 - Health Assessment for Advanced Nursing Practice of Neonatal and Pediatric
Patients Across the Lifespan
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. For advanced practice nurse. P:
Admission to NURS graduate program or consent of instructor. Prepares the advanced practice
nurse to comprehensively assess neonatal and pediatric clients clients across the lifespan, with
emphasis on the neonate and pediatric patient, using the diagnostic reasoning process.
NURS 6419 - Clinical Pharmacology for Advanced Neonatal and Pediatric Nursing
Practice Across the Lifespan
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P: Admission to NURS graduate
program or consent of instructor. Pharmacological knowledge basic to assessment and
management skills for advanced clinical nursing practice across the lifespan, with emphasis on
the neonate and pediatric patient related to newborns and pediatric patients with common acute
and chronic health problems. Scientific inquiry relative to the pharmacodynamics,
pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics of broad categories of agents across the lifespan,
with emphasis on the neonate and pediatric patient.
NURS 6420 - Advanced Neonatal Nursing: Research and Theory I
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P: NURS 6417, NURS 6418, NURS
6419. P/C: NURS 6417. Focuses on advanced study of the role of the neonatal nurse practitioner,
management of the prenatal and postnatal environments, and investigation of anticipated health
problems experienced by infants and implications for the infants and their families.
NURS 6421 - Advanced Neonatal Nursing Practicum I
23
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P/C: NURS 6420. Provides intensive
neonatal clinical and didactic experiences for neonatal nurse practitioner students focusing on
physiologic monitoring, diagnostic reasoning, anticipatory planning, and evidence-based
therapeutic strategies in the daily management of the high-risk neonate and family.
NURS 6422 - Advanced Neonatal Nursing: Research and Theory II
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P: NURS 6420. Focuses on the
integration of theoretical frameworks and evidence-based research into clinical decision-making,
neonatal nurse practitioner management of disorders of organ systems, and care of the family
unit.
NURS 6423 - Advanced Neonatal Nursing Practicum II
43
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P/C: NURS 6422. Provides Expands
intensive neonatal clinical and didactic experiences for neonatal nurse practitioner students by
focusing on acute and chronic physiologic monitoring, diagnostic reasoning, anticipatory
planning, and evidence-based therapeutic strategies in the daily management and follow-up care
of the high-risk neonate and family.
NURS 6424 - Advanced Neonatal Nursing: Research and Theory III
3
May be repeated upon readmission to the concentration. P: NURS 6422. Focuses on the
collaborative integration of advanced knowledge to care for the infant and the family with
complex needs.