NURS 608 Primary Care IV: Trans to Practice

Focus is on transition to practice. Issues include the professional role, legal issues, practice regulation, preparation for certification exam, negotiating practice agreements, financing healthcare, and fiscal stewardship and management. The student applies, synthesizes and evaluates content from nursing theory and sciences in the clinical practice setting. Requires clinical experience of 168 hours with an approved preceptor. Content will include an overall review of the program as well as focused didactic based on student self-assessment of need and content indicated by the outcomes of the predictor exit exam. Prerequisites: Nurs 500, 520, 522, 524, 540, 542, 544.