429A – First Practicum Course -Beginning Level Skills and Competencies

• Comprehensive and symptom focused history and physical assessment

• Evaluation of health risk behaviors

• Assessment of health protection status (immunizations, nutrition, safety)

• Screens for acute and chronic mental health problems and disorders

• Symptom analysis and data synthesis

• Orders/performs and interprets lab and diagnostic tests

• Functional Assessment

• Occupational and Environmental Assessment

• Sexual Health Assessment (adolescent through old age)

429B – Second Practicum Course-Beginning Level Skills and Competencies

• Continued development and refinement of 429A skills and competencies

• Advanced clinical reasoning

• Selective application of evidenced-based practice

• Health promotion

• Facilitate and plan for client’s self-care

• Anticipatory guidance, teaching-learning

• Problem formulation and diagnosis

• Prescribe drug therapy

• Implement non-pharmacologic therapy

• Evaluate and modify treatment based on client’s response

429 C – Third Practicum Course- Intermediate Level Skills and Competencies

• Continued development and refinement of 429 A&B skills and competencies

• Comprehensive assessment and management

• Ordering and adjusting medication regimens in the treatment of acute and chronic conditions

• Orders/performs and interprets lab and diagnostic tests

• Mental Status and Mental Health Assessment

• Functional Assessment: safety and risk reduction

• Advance Care Planning

• Care Transitions

• End of Life Care

• Inter -professional Practice

• Practice management: Quality and safety improvement

• Primary Care procedures - selected

429 D – Fourth Practicum Course - Intermediate Level Skills and Competencies

• Continued development and refinement of 429 A, B, and C skills and competencies

• Behavioral Risk Screening

• Functional Assessment: safety and risk reduction

• Transitions End of Life Care

429 E- Final practicum Course – Advanced Level Skills and Competencies

• Continued development and refinement of 429 A, B, C, and D skills and competencies

• Family Assessment, complex

• Behavioral Screening

• Community Assessment

• Primary Care Procedures-selected

• Formulation of a clinical question and a systematic inquiry

• Perform disability evaluation

• Home Health Assessment