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Course Listings 103758a/b, Advanced Clinical Practice for Family Nurse Practitioners. Minimum 1.3credit hours per term. This practicum provides the opportunity for further developmentand refinement of primary care skills and clinical judgment with children and adolescentsin the context of a family. Nurse practitioner and physician preceptors assist students intheir clinical development. Required for family nurse practitioner students in the finalyear of specialization. Four hours per week of clinical practice are spent in a pediatric orfamily practice setting. A group clinical conference is scheduled periodically throughoutthe year. Prerequisite: successful completion of 558b. M. Mauldon.[762a, Leadership and Policy in Action. 2 credit hours. The focus of this clinical courseis the application of skills acquired during previous work to community and organizationalissues. Selected health planning methods are applied to develop a program for themanagement of an identified problem. Students work in small groups to conduct a projectfor a public or private sector agency with placement sites varying based on availabilityand student’s interest. A final document is produced for use by the sponsoring agency.Prerequisites: 561a and 565b, or permission of the instructor. Required for all students inthe Nursing Management and Policy specialty. One hour of clinical conference and fivehours of clinical practice per week. Nursing Management and Policy faculty. Not offeredfall term 2002.]765a/b (HPA 575a,b, Internal Medicine 196), Advanced Concepts in Home Care.2credit hours per term. This course focuses on topics that address the current issues inthe field of home health care practice. Home care is examined from the perspective of itsplace within a changing health care delivery system. Issues that confront both the clinicianand the manager in home care practice are discussed from a multispecialty perspective.Required for all home care concentration students. Open to final-year students inother specialty programs and others with permission of the instructor. Two hours perweek. P. Milone-Nuzzo.767a/b, Home Care Case Seminar. 1 credit hour per term. This course focuses onexamination of case studies derived from complex situations in the home care setting.Case study analysis draws upon concepts from management theory, policy, clinical care,and ethics. Emphasis is placed on deriving strategies for managing in the current homecare environment. Students present cases from a number of perspectives including theclient, family, community, and staff. Required for all home care concentration students.Open to others with permission of the instructor. Two hours per week, every other week.P. Milone-Nuzzo.768a/b, Clinical Practice in Diabetes Care and Management. 1.65 credit hours perterm. This yearlong course in diabetes care and management focuses on comprehensivemanagement of a caseload of diabetes patients in students’ elected program of clinicalspecialization. The Albert Einstein Diabetes Research and Training Center and Yale–New Haven Hospital diabetes specialty and primary care clinics serve as clinical practicesites. Required in the final year of study for all students in the Diabetes Care concentration.Four hours per week, plus one hour per week of clinical conference. V. Jefferson.