{"id":75259,"date":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/nurse-practitioner-students-gain-experience-with-young-patients\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"nurse-practitioner-students-gain-experience-with-young-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/nurse-practitioner-students-gain-experience-with-young-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse practitioner students gain experience with young patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 Dec. 19, 2019 \u2014 Students in the 溏心vlog免费B站 nurse practitioner programs recently took what they have learned in the classroom into the exam room, performing full physicals on volunteer children on two recent Saturday mornings at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence.<\/p>\n

The students, enrolled in the Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner programs, recruited the children from among their friends and family members to take part in the exercise. The students interviewed the patients and their parents to gather a full medical and family history before conducting a comprehensive physical exam.<\/p>\n

Twenty 溏心vlog免费B站 students took part in the program, which helped them apply the lessons they learned in the classroom to a real-life scenario, according to Denise Coppa, associate professor and director of Advanced Practice for the College. Coppa and other professors monitored the exams by video in an adjoining room, allowing them to provide immediate feedback on the performance.<\/p>\n

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Family nurse practitioner student Brenna Maynard records the weight of Leila Eladnani, a 5-year-old family friend whom she examined as part of her master\u2019s in Family Nurse Practitioner class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis gives the students great practice on compiling a patient\u2019s history, conducting a physical exam and developing a full assessment of that patient,\u201d Coppa said. \u201cThey benefit from practicing the physical exam as well as working on their communication skills with a patient. It gives the students real-world experience they can take with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family nurse practitioner student Brenna Maynard examined the 5-year-old daughter of a family friend, beginning by asking the child and her mother detailed questions about medical history, home life and school. She asked her patient questions to determine her level of mental and emotional development before conducting a physical exam. The program gives her invaluable practice working with patients, she said, especially younger ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prepared a lot for it, but when you get in there with a parent and child, it\u2019s very different. You never know what you\u2019re going to get with a young child, but you just have to roll with it,\u201d Maynard said. \u201cWithout the interaction with a child, it would just be theoretical. Being able to have that firsthand experience just makes it real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow family nurse practitioner student Jeremy DiBiasio worked with a child patient and a parent for the first time. As much as you prepare in the classroom, there is no substitute for the real thing, when you have to think on your feet and perform in real time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great experience to be actually hands-on. You just can\u2019t get that experience unless you\u2019re in it,\u201d DiBiasio said. \u201cWe get all the education and information in class, but to be able to apply those skills in a real-world setting is invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner programs, the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing offers graduate programs in Adult Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, a Ph.D. program, and Doctor of Nurse Practitioner programs online and in-person. Visit the college\u2019s website<\/a> for more information and to apply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 Dec. 19, 2019 \u2014 Students in the 溏心vlog免费B站 nurse practitioner programs recently took what they have learned in the classroom into the exam room, performing full physicals on volunteer children on two recent Saturday mornings at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence. The students, enrolled in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-75259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}