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Course Listings 109and their children. The clinical practice is designed to allow expansion of abilities as anurse practitioner in a specialized care setting as a health educator and liaison for adolescentparents in the high school. Prerequisites: 632, 633a, 640b or a, and 641b. Coursehours vary. L. Sadler.845a, Pediatric Pharmacology. 1.5 credit hours. Lectures focus on principles of drugtherapy, mechanisms of action, and selection of pharmaceutical agents in pediatric clinicalpractice. Emphasis is on commonly used drugs in pediatrics. Required for pediatricnurse practitioner students in the final year of study. Open to others with permission ofthe instructor. One and one-half hours per week. A. Crowley.849a (631b in spring term), Family Systems and Perspectives Relevant to HealthCare. 1.5 credit hours. This course provides theoretical perspectives on family structures,family development, and family systems that influence the health of the individualin the context of the community. Techniques in assessment of family functioning, vulnerabilities,and strengths provide the basis for developing strategies of intervention, crisismanagement, referral, and integration of multiple systems of care. Selected family problemsare analyzed within the theoretical perspectives with examples for clinical andpolicy interventions. Required for all adult, family, pediatric, and psychiatric–mentalhealth nurse practitioner students. Open to others with permission of the instructor.Three hours per week for seven weeks. K. Knafl.85oa/b/c, Advanced Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing Practice. Minimum 4credit hours fall term and 3 credit hours spring term. The aim of the final practicum is topromote development of leadership skills required for professional practice at the clinicalnurse specialist level. Emphasis includes building upon first-year clinical skills toinclude group and/or family treatment methods and refinement of individual psychotherapytechniques for a select population; identification of opportunities for oractual provision of indirect care through such activities as consultation, supervision, oreducation; understanding the influence of organizational structures and systems issueson the delivery of services to clients. Students elect to focus their clinical experience onwomen, children, and families; the psychiatric consultation liaison nursing role with themedically ill population; adults with psychiatric disabilities; or the gerontological population.Required for all psychiatric–mental health nursing students in the final year ofspecialization. A minimum of twelve hours of clinical practice is required fall term, andnine hours spring term, including one hour of clinical conference. A summer course isoffered for post master’s certificate students. S. Talley, coordinator.851b, Seminar in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: Theoretical andEvidence-Based Perspectives. 1.5 credit hours. This seminar is designed for all finalyearpsychiatric–mental health specialty students. The provision of mental health servicesis determined by many factors including policy, public demand, ideas among generalpractitioners and mental health professionals, and the financial pressures ofpurchasers and providers of services. These groups often have widely disparate viewsabout the nature of mental disorders and their most appropriate interventions. The