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NURS 653 Advanced Adult-Gerontology Nursing I - CNS


This course focuses on diagnostic reasoning and treatment decision-making using nursing theory and research. Diagnostic reason and treatment decision-making assist the skilled clinician in making advanced clinical judgments of evidence-based nursing interventions with acute and/or chronically ill adults from young adulthood to geriatric. The course combines theoretical content with student-selected and instructor-approved preceptor-guided clinical practice: two-hour seminar, three-hour clinical (180 clock hours precepted clinical).

Credit 6 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Summer (in-person and online)

Prerequisites - NURS 611  
Restriction by Major - GCNS NURE GCNM DNP-GCNS  
Restriction by Degree Type - Graduate standing

Equivalent Course(s) -
Course History -
Change to description and credit hours 6/2023, effective Fall 2023; Course rotation updated 1/2021, effective Fall 2021; Change to major and class-level restriction 5/2017, 7/2017 effective Fall 2017; Change to major restriction 4/2017, effective Summer 2017; Change to major restriction 5/2015, effective Fall 2015; Change to prerequisites 2/2015, effective Fall 2015; Course Revision 7/2014, Change to number, title, and description 5/2013, effective Winter 2014


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