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This course provides content to prepare the adult/gerontological nurse practitioner student for transition to a primary care nurse practitioner who cares for adults. It integrates evidence-based biomedical, psychological, social and nursing aspects of care that is based on age, gender, culture, and ethnicity. The course emphasizes care of complex patients and 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, end of life care decisions, development of expert communication skills in difficult conversations, and practice-delivery models for care. Prerequisites: NR.210.643 and 210.647 Corequisite: NR.210.648