NUR 621 Primary Care Procedures
This course covers the ethical, legal, and safe standards of care in selected clinical topics in NP practice. Topics include, but are not limited to primary care procedures, emergency and wilderness medicine. Procedures include: wound closures (sutures, staples, wound adhesives); local anesthesia, digital blocks, splinting, casting, HEENT procedures (fluorescein staining, foreign body removal, Morgan lens irrigation, Wood’s light/Slit lamp); cerumen disimpaction/irrigation; nasal fracture management, epistaxis; toenail removal; I&D, splinter removal, X-ray interpretation; reduction of nursemaid’s elbow. Florida specific injuries cover stings, bites, fishhook removal, tick removal and snakes/spiders/frogs.
Credits
2
Prerequisite
Prerequisites or corequisites:
NUR 618 and
NUR 618L. Permission of MSN program director required.
Offered
fall and spring semesters.