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Course Listings 91557a/b, Primary Care Problems of Adults I. 2 credit hours per term. Didactic sessionsfocus on the differential diagnosis and management of common health problems inadults and adolescents. Begins during fall term and continues for remainder of year.Required for students in the first year of specialization as adult, family, gerontological,women’s health, oncology, and psychiatric–mental health nurse practitioners. Prerequisite:Successful completion of 554a and 557a to continue with 557b. Two hours perweek. C. Auerhahn.558b, Clinical Practice for Family Nurse Practitioners. 1.3 credit hours. Clinicalpractice in child health assessment and the provision of primary health care. Focusesupon family-centered well-child care and the differentiation of normal from abnormalfindings. Four hours per week during spring term are spent in an ambulatory pediatricor family practice setting. Group clinical conferences are scheduled periodicallythroughout the term. Required for students in the first year of specialization as familynurse practitioners. Prerequisite: successful completion of 554a, 557a, 633a, and 637a.K. Stemler.559b, Adult Development: A Life Span Perspective. 1 credit hour. Human developmentfrom adolescence through late adulthood is considered by applying theoretical perspectivesto selected examples from literature and life experience. Seminars focus ondevelopmental theory and its application to developmental transitions and alterations inhealth during adolescence and adulthood. Required for all adult, family, and women’shealth nurse practitioner students. Open to others with permission of the instructor. Onehour per week. I. Alexander.[564a, Practicum in Nursing Management and Policy I. 3 credit hours. This is thefirst part of a two-term sequence in which students acquire and apply basic knowledgenecessary for understanding the management of health services organizations and developmentof health policy. Case management provides the framework for the course. Thefirst part of the term is devoted to classroom work, with an emphasis on the evolution ofcase management, and differences between individual and population-based care. In thelast part of the term, students are placed in clinical sites to apply their knowledge of casemanagement and other aspects of management and policy. Students are encouraged toexplore case management from clinical, organizational, systems, and government perspectives.Two hours of seminar per week and seven hours of clinical practice in the lastsix weeks of the term. Required for all students in the Nursing Management and Policyspecialty. Nursing Management and Policy faculty. Not offered fall term 2002.][564b, Practicum in Nursing Management and Policy II. 2.5 credit hours. This is thesecond term of a two-term sequence in which students acquire and apply basic knowledgenecessary for understanding management of health services organizations anddevelopment of health policy. This term includes seven hours of clinical practice perweek and two hours of clinical conference every other week. Students may continue theirpractica from 564a, or, with faculty permission, arrange a new clinical site. Unlike in