NURS8120-A Health Promotion/Clinical Prev (Summer 2014 Doctoral)
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Course Details
Session, Dates: 5 (05/22/2014 - 07/24/2014)
Days: R
Time: 03:00 - 05:55 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: John Jay 141
Seats Available: 10 Seats
Credits: 3
Course Description
This course will provide the student the opportunity to utilize previous learned knowledge in the application of preventive health concepts and health promotion principles across the life span to specific populations. Healthy People 2010 and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines that should be offered to patients as part of ongoing personal health care will be the evidence-based practice emphasized. Students will be introduced to physiological and psychological preventive health principles as well as lifestyle behavior modification. Specific content will include counseling about personal health behaviors, screening test for early detection of risk factors and disease, immunizations, and chemoprophylactic regimens offered to patients before they develop clinical evidence of disease.
Prerequisite: NURS8010
Prerequisite: NURS8010
Course Materials
About the Instructor(s)
Kirstyn M. Kameg, D.N.P., PMHNP-BC, FAANP
kameg@rmu.edu
412-397-6810 phone
412-397-3277 fax
Scaife Hall 116
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University Professor of Nursing
Nursing
Coordinator, Psychiatric Mental Health NP Program
Nursing
kameg@rmu.edu
412-397-6810 phone
412-397-3277 fax
Scaife Hall 116
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