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This course provides clinical experience in adult health care settings (adolescent ages 16 to geriatric). It emphasizes the integration of theory, anticipatory guidance, health promotion and disease prevention, and clinical decision making throughout the entire spectrum of the adult lifespan. Students will perform comprehensive and episodic clinical assessments, including appropriate diagnostic testing and therapeutic interventions. Management of both stable, chronic illness and treatment of acute, episodic health problems will be accomplished with the direction of clinical preceptors. Students will work with faculty, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and physician preceptors in a variety of primary care and specialty clinical practicum sites including college health services, health maintenance organizations, community based clinics, long-term care, assisted living, continuing care, retirement communities, occupational health settings, urgent care/fast track, and private practice. Clinical placements are arranged by faculty with individual preceptors. Preceptors and students arrange mutually convenient clinical hours. A minimum of 224 (AGNP)/196 (FNP) clinical hours are required this semester; this works out to about 14 hours per week for FNP students and 16 hours per week for AGNP students. A two hour weekly clinical seminar will review diagnostic and treatment regimens in a case study format. Information presented will focus on the collection of subjective and objective data, pertinent laboratory findings, diagnostic tests, differential diagnoses and a plan for therapeutic intervention. Cases will focus on underserved, vulnerable and elder patient populations. AGNP 224 clinical hours; FNP 196 clinical hours. Prerequisites: NR.110.502, 110.508, 110.549, 110.536, 110.547 Corequisites: 110.557, 110.589