Unit Code: NAP888

Unit Name: Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practice

Description: This course is designed to provide students with clinical practice in various areas including special clinics in the hospital and health centre facilities. Clinical rotations include women’s health care, family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS, antenatal, labour and delivery, postnatal, newborn, and neonatal care; outpatient clinics, including general medicine (including pediatrics), ENT, ophthalmology, cardiology, diabetic clinic, dermatology, A & E, and infectious diseases; and hospital rounds and in-depth case analyses. During this period, students also perform family, environmental and community assessments, paediatric well childcare, advanced health education, and nutritional counselling skills; students integrate practice and theory with community-based learning activities, using case conferences, special presentations, and group discussions.

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Prerequisite: NAP885 & NAP886

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 40

Offered In: Semester 2