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This course is designed to expand the student's learning in a specified area related to nursing practice and research. Advanced theories and principles related to the delivery of nursing care in selected settings and/or with selected populations are presented. The student will build on previous pediatric content, gaining more depth in the acute care topics. During the course, students will examine trauma care, pediatric sepsis and shock, congenital heart defects, child life and non-pharmacologic pain intervention, hematology and oncology, pediatric respiratory diseases and support, and student-led topics of interest in pediatric acute care. The students will select the area of nursing practice and research they would like to explore in more depth. The course will conclude with small group evidence-based practice presentations using questions to be researched that may have been stimulated from problems discovered in previous pediatric clinical rotations. Prerequisites: NR.120.501-120.522