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92 School of Nursing564a, which focuses on case management, in 564b students expand their work to a managementor policy area relevant to their clinical placement and areas of individual interest.Required for all students in the Nursing Management and Policy specialty. Prerequisite:564a. Nursing Management and Policy faculty. Not offered spring term 2003.]571a, Clinical Pharmacology. 2.5 credit hours. Lectures on principles of drug therapy,mechanisms of action, and selection of pharmaceutical agents in clinical practice.Required for adult, family, gerontological, and women’s health nurse practitioner, nursemidwifery,and psychiatric–mental health nurse practitioner students in the fall term ofthe second year of specialization. Also required for Adult Advanced Practice Nursingspecialty students. Open to others with permission of the instructor. Two and one-halfhours per week. G. Morrow.58oa, Primary Care of Women: Health Assessment and Antepartum Care. 7 credithours. Students are introduced to nurse-midwifery practice. Health assessment ofwomen includes both lecture and laboratory practice of clinical skills. Content in healthassessment includes history taking and physical examination skills through lectures andlaboratory practicum involving students practicing skills on each other. Basic laboratoryskills in microscopic diagnosis of common gynecologic infections is included. Theremainder of the first term is devoted to the theory and practice of antepartum care andfetal assessment. Students apply learning in supervised clinical practice after the first sixweeks of the term. A lab fee is assessed for this course. Required for all nurse-midwiferystudents in the first year of specialization. H. Reynolds, S. Vedam.58ob, Primary Care of Women: Well Woman Care and Introduction to IntrapartumCare. 7 credit hours. Ambulatory care is extended to the care of nonpregnantwomen. Through regularly scheduled lectures, seminars, and supervised clinical practicestudents learn and apply principles of primary care, family planning, and office gynecology.The last half of the course is devoted to introducing theory, skills, and managementof intrapartum, postpartum, and transitional care of the newborn through lecture, casestudies, and supervised clinical practice. Students have clinical experience in labor, delivery,and postpartum care, as well as in the transitional care of the normal newborn. A labfee is assessed for this course. Required for all nurse-midwifery students in the first yearof specialization. Thirteen hours per week. B. Hackley, M. E. Rousseau, S. Vedam.581b, Professional Issues. 2 credit hours. This course is an introduction to the professionof nurse-midwifery and midwifery, and to the national professional organization,the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Students review the history of theprofession and become familiar with credentialing; risk management; quality assurance;peer review; clinical ethics; malpractice insurance; evaluation and effectiveness literature;the structure and function of the ACNM; ACNM documents; the nurse-midwiferyrole, its functions, and interdisciplinary relation. Discussion focuses on current issuesand possible future directions for the profession. The course prepares students to participateknowledgeably in local, regional, and national meetings and activities of theACNM, and to accept responsibility inherent in the profession. Two hours per week. H.Varney Burst.