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This is the final course in a series of five that provides didactic content to prepare the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) student to practice as a PNP in the primary care setting. It integrates evidence-based biomedical, psychological, social and nursing aspects of care that is based on age, gender, culture, and ethnicity. The course emphasizes the legal, regulatory, and scope of practice issues and readies the student for entry into practice. Attention is directed towards quality, safety, and risk management monitoring, and nurse practitioner-driven outcomes. The course will also explore patient transitions of care, palliative care decisions, development of expert communication skills in difficult conversations, and practice-delivery models for care. Prerequisites: NR.210.633 and 210.637 Corequisite: NR. 210.638