This course allows the graduate pediatric nursing student the opportunity to examine the care of children and adolescents (birth through 21 years) with special health care needs and those with complex/critical, chronic health deviations on the pediatric client, their families, and the community. By incorporating the role of the PNP into the process of utilizing clinical decision-making skills, interprofessional collaboration, management and intervention strategies, the student will provide collaborative care to the pediatric client with acute/critical chronic health deviations or special healthcare needs in the acute care setting. Current evidence-based, research and management guidelines will be analyzed using the synthesis of knowledge gained from collaborative sciences and applied to the framework of advanced practice nursing.

This course allows the graduate pediatric nursing student the opportunity to examine the care of children and adolescents (birth through 21 years) with special health care needs and those with complex/critical, chronic health deviations on the pediatric client, their families, and the community. By incorporating the role of the PNP into the process of utilizing clinical decision-making skills, interprofessional collaboration, management and intervention strategies, the student will provide collaborative care to the pediatric client with acute/critical chronic health deviations or special healthcare needs in the acute care setting. Current evidence-based, research and management guidelines will be analyzed using the synthesis of knowledge gained from collaborative sciences and applied to the framework of advanced practice nursing.