M.S. in Nursing-Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

在照顾老年人发挥关键作用与成人老年初级保健护士执业学位

Patients of all ages, including those 65+, deserve the kind of healthcare excellence that comes only from compassionate, caring professionals who are equipped to deliver evidence-based solutions. If you’re drawn to helping older adults and want to specialize in their care, as well as those with chronic comorbidities, let Franklin’s M.护理-成人-老年初级保健执业护士(MSN-AGPCNP)学位让你走上这条道路.

Program Overview

获得资格证书,你需要与不断增长的人口,需要护士从业人员与老年学专业工作. 十大正规赌博平台大全排行的护理学硕士(MSN)为注册护士提供了进一步发展他们的专业技能的机会,成为一名成人-老年初级护理执业护士(AGPCNP)。. With a flexible program designed for busy, working nurses, 十大正规赌博平台大全排行的MSN-AGPCNP学位课程为您做好充分准备,确保为青少年到成年期的患者提供卓越的医疗保健服务.

十大正规赌博平台大全排行的护理硕士学位课程获得美国大学护理教育委员会(http://www.ccneaccreditation.org). 

Program Outcomes

  1. 综合护理及相关学科的理论和知识,发展指导高级护理实践的理论基础.

  2. 运用领导技能和决策能力,在不同的环境中提供高质量的护理.

  3. Provide leadership across the care continuum in diverse settings to promote high quality, safe, effective patient centered care.

  4. Appraise, use, and participate in the extension of nursing knowledge through scientific inquiry.

  5. Integrate current and emerging technologies into professional practice.

  6. Demonstrate responsive leadership, collaboration, 管理以影响护理实践和护理专业的发展,并影响卫生政策.

  7. 采用协作策略和有效沟通,倡导专业护士作为跨专业团队成员和领导者的角色.

  8. Integrate clinical prevention and population health concepts to provide holistic, comprehensive nursing care for individual, families, and aggregates.

  9. 展示对护理和相关科学的高级理解,并将这些知识整合到实践中.

Curriculum & Course Descriptions

Major Area Required
NURS 612 - Role of the Master's Prepared Nurse (3)

This course assesses the various roles of the master's prepared nurse. The influence of the health care delivery systems, health care policy, diversity, ethics, quality, safety, theory, evidence based practice, and information systems on the role of the master's prepared nurse will be explored.

NURS 644 - Advanced Pathophysiology (3)

本课程深入研究健康状态改变后的生理变化和反应,以及它们对患者功能状态的影响. Students will focus on the essential knowledge of human health and disease across the lifespan. 病理生理学理论和循证研究是将内容应用于人群的基础.

NURS 646 - Advanced Physical Assessment (3)

This course builds upon the student?S以前的健康评估知识提供了更高级的健康评估内容,为高级专业护理角色提供了基础. This course emphasizes knowledge of health assessment, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual health assessment, risk assessment, 以及不同人群在促进健康和预防疾病方面的功能评估. To maintain a nursing focus on patient responses to health, illness, or the threat of illness, the nurse must exhibit effective communication and client teaching, which is incorporated throughout the course. The importance of effective documentation and health record keeping is included.

NURS 648 - Advanced Pharmacology (3)

This course focuses on the concepts, principles, 以及药物治疗在初级保健中遇到的健康问题管理中的应用. Emphasis is placed on theories and principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics, which provide a foundation for critical thinking, and the application of research finding. 对药理学的关注旨在治疗人一生中出现的急性和慢性健康问题. Prescriptive authority for nurses is explored.

NURS 693 - Evidence Based Practice & Quality Improv (3)

This course will explore and analyze methods to improve nursing practice and health outcomes. Collaborative efforts and ethical concerns are considered. Emphasis is placed on critically evaluating evidence-based practice and quality assurance initiatives.

NURS 698 - Diagnostic Methods for the Nurse Practitioner (2)

本课程将为学生提供适用于APN实践的常见诊断测试的内容, the rationale for these tests, expected results and common abnormal results. Topics include selection of appropriate diagnostic tests, procedures for collecting specimens, analyzing selected tests and evaluating results. APRN的作用是了解诊断测试选择的循证支持,并使用批判性思维来评估该测试在测试背景下的重要性?s sensitivity specificity the disease prevalence and the patient?s likelihood for the condition. 在权衡检测的风险/收益因素时,APRN是患者的倡导者,同时也是资源的良好管理者,避免不必要的检测,从而导致医疗保健的高成本. APRN需要熟悉测试的法律含义,例如保护医疗信息的隐私, timeliness of providing test results, and laws concerning mandatory reporting. 自主的伦理和拒绝测试的权利需要考虑,因为APRN与患者分享决策. 健康的社会经济因素和社会决定因素可能对获得保健造成障碍,也需要仔细考虑.

NURS 700 - Foundations of Nurse Practition Practice

This course introduces the practice of primary health care. Principles of safety, quality, and the art of diagnosis and treatment influencing care delivery will be addressed. These include fundamentals in the art of diagnosis and treatment, population health, cultural competency, oral and written communication, and billing and coding. This course has a required basic office procedure skills and assessment lab of 16 hours.

NURS 701 - Primary Care I (4)

本课程为执业护士学生提供有关健康促进原理的先进理论知识, disease prevention, and management of common acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan. This course has a required clinical experience of 150 hours where students will complete appropriate focused and comprehensive subjective and objective assessments; use a differential diagnosis process to make clinical decisions; select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests, medications, and referrals; and document effectively in patients? health records.

NURS 702 - Primary Care II (4)

本课程为执业护士学生提供有关健康促进原理的先进理论知识, disease prevention, and management of common acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan. This course has a required clinical experience of 150 hours where students will complete appropriate, focused, and comprehensive subjective and objective assessments; use a differential diagnosis process to make clinical decisions; select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests, medications, and referrals; and document effectively in patients? health records.

NURS 710 - Management of the Geriatric Population (4)

本课程侧重于健康护理的概念,具体到身体和心理健康的评估和管理的应用,特别强调健康促进, disease prevention, risk reduction, disease detection, and chronic disease management for the geriatric population. Students will advance understanding of aging, age-related changes, palliative and end-of-life care. This course has a required clinical experience of 150 hours where students will complete appropriate focused and comprehensive subjective and objective assessments; use a differential diagnosis process to make clinical decisions; select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests, medications, and referrals; and document effectively in patients' health records.

NURS 791 - Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Capstone (4)

本课程侧重于健康护理的概念,具体到身体和心理健康的评估和管理的应用,特别强调健康促进, disease prevention, risk reduction, disease detection, and gender-related well-being. 学生将增进对不同人群中与福祉和性别相关的健康相关的核心概念的理解. This course has a required clinical experience of 150 hours, where students will complete appropriate focused and comprehensive subjective and objective assessments; use a differential diagnosis process to make clinical decisions; select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests, medications, and referrals; and document effectively in patients? health records.

NURS 705 - Adult-Gero Primary Care NP Cert Prep (1)

This course is designed to prepare the student to successfully pass the national certification exam. Emphasis will be on best test-taking practices, the application of critical thinking, health promotion, disease prevention, and management of care of individuals with chronic health needs.

HCM 752 - Health Policy (4)

本课程将探讨卫生政策制定和政治的基本概念和分析理解, including their impact on health administration and leadership. 选定的政策问题将通过政治概念和行为模型的应用进行探讨, including a system model of policymaking. The emphasis will be on understanding the health leader?s approach to the policymaking system, become involved in it, and work through it to attain their objectives and those of their organization.