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96 School of Nursingpractitioner, family nurse practitioner, and psychiatric–mental health clinical nurse specialiststudents in the first year of specialization. Open to others with permission of theinstructor. One and one-half hours per week. L. Sadler.639a, Primary Care of the Newborn. 1.5 credit hours. This course presents theoreticaland clinical knowledge relative to the care of the neonate and the childbearing familyduring the perinatal period. Standards of health care are presented. Theoretical componentsof the transition to parenthood and of parent-infant interactions that provide aframework for practice are examined. Required for all pediatric nurse practitioner studentsin the first year of specialization and for nurse-midwifery students in the secondyear of specialization. Open to family nurse practitioner students. One and one-halfhours per week. M. Swartz, T. Clark.64oa or b, Clinical Practice in the Primary Care of Adolescents. 0.5 credit hours.Designed to aid the student in gaining elementary skills in the assessment of adolescentdevelopment, both physiological and psychological; in the recognition and managementof deviations from normal development and health status; and in intermediate-level skillin the caretaking process of the adolescent patient, including health promotion and education.Required for all pediatric nurse practitioner students, second term first year orfirst term second year of specialization. Four hours per week for six weeks. A. Moriarty-Daley.641b, Primary Care of Adolescents. 1.5 credit hours. Designed to provide the studentwith a conceptual model for viewing normal psychological and physiological adolescentdevelopment, an understanding of the clinical relevance of basic deviations from normaldevelopment, and an understanding of the diagnosis and clinical care of adolescents inprimary care settings. Required for all pediatric nurse practitioner students in the firstyear of specialization. Open to others with permission of the instructor. One and onehalfhours per week. A. Moriarty-Daley, L. Sadler.656a/b, Specialty Practicum in Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing. 3 credit hoursper term. Clinical experiences enable students to integrate knowledge derived fromcourses and readings with that obtained from the study of their own nursing practice.Experiences include supervised clinical work with clients in various stages of developmentacross the life span in inpatient and outpatient settings. Individual supervision isoffered in assessment, crisis intervention, case management, brief therapy, individualtherapy, family therapy, group therapy, and the use of medications. The supervisory conferencesfocus on the clinician-patient relationship, the application of theories to clinicalpractice, and the life-span issues affecting mental health and illness. Two terms requiredfor all psychiatric nursing students in the first year of specialization. Nine hours per weekincluding one hour of clinical conference. S. Talley, coordinator.657a, Mental Health Assessment Across the Life Span. 2 credit hours. This courseprovides students with the concepts and skills necessary to conduct the mental healthevaluation of individuals at all points of the life span. Students learn to collect data guided