Nursing Skills Lab (SKILLS LAB)

Instructor(s): Jane Abanes, Katerina Melino

Instructor(s): Jane Abanes, Katerina Melino

An immersive, interactive lab experience that provides students with foundational skills for therapeutic relationship building and diagnostic interviewing. Using low-fidelity simulation, lab will develop psychiatric interviewing skills, motivational interviewing, and diagnostic reasoning.

Instructor(s): Becca NeuwirthBecca Neuwirth also teaches: NURSING 247.3, NURSING 414.47

Instructor(s): Becca Neuwirth

In this course, through a series of labs, advanced practice nursing students will engage in hands-on experience performing a variety of common primary care procedures including, but not limited to, microscopy, long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, and outpatient dermatology procedures. Students will learn indications, risks, benefits, and alternatives of the various procedures; patient management; and patient follow-up.

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski, Mary Gallagher

Instructor(s): Bridget Gramkowski, Mary Gallagher

Course provides groundwork for advanced nursing practice health assessment skills, procedures, and history taking through practice in both the laboratory and clinical settings with a focus on the pediatric population.

Instructor(s): Amy RenfroAmy Renfro also teaches: NURSING 254C, Chrissy SmithChrissy Smith also teaches: NURSING 254C

Instructor(s): Amy Renfro, Chrissy Smith

This skills lab will prepare the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) to plan for and provide care for neonatal patients across neonatal care settings, from convalescence through acute illness. Integration of theoretical concepts with neonatal physiology and pathophysiology will be supported through interactive exercises that develop assessment and management skills necessary for practice in the neonatal care setting. Development of skills in neonatal procedures.

Instructor(s): Brittany ChristiansenBrittany Christiansen also teaches: NURSING 415.13A, NURSING 232.06, NURSING 283.24

Instructor(s): Brittany Christiansen

This course provides students with the opportunity to obtain basic and advanced diagnostic and psychomotor skills for evaluation and management of infants, children, and adolescents with complex acute, chronic, and critical illness. Emphasis is placed on applying evidence-based practice concepts related to information gathering, advanced physical assessment, patient presentation, and procedural skills across the spectrum of pediatric acute care.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This laboratory course focuses on development of necessary clinical and communication skills for safely and respectfully providing high quality nurse-midwifery care. Student skill development will be specific to advanced practice management in outpatient and inpatient settings, including procedures requiring both technical skill and communication skill.

Instructor(s): Scott Weyland

Instructor(s): Scott Weyland

Course provides an opportunity to apply theory in clinical practice to further develop skills and to extend clinical expertise in selected aspects of physiological nursing. Guided clinical laboratory experience designed to develop mastery of advanced physical assessment and exam skills.

Instructor(s): Michele PelterMichele Pelter also teaches: NURSING 298A

Instructor(s): Michele Pelter

Case-based learning on how to interpret standard 12-lead electrocardiograms and rhythm strips to enhance clinical decision-making.

Instructor(s): Helen HorvathHelen Horvath also teaches: NURSING 270

Instructor(s): Helen Horvath

Supervised application of health assessment concepts and skills. Students perform systematic health assessments of adults with a focus on differentiating normal from abnormal findings.

Instructor(s): Denise Li

Instructor(s): Denise Li

Guided learning activity to develop advanced nursing practice health assessment and physical examination skills. Learners practice various health and physical assessments of adults and older adults with a focus on differentiating normal from abnormal findings.

Instructor(s): Carolina NoyaCarolina Noya also teaches: NURSING 414.96

Instructor(s): Carolina Noya

Course focuses on the complex behavioral, educational, and family skills required to support patients in living with diabetes. The lab focuses on student skill development in varied forms of behavioral and family intervention (e.g., motivational interviewing; coping skills training, problem-solving interventions, behavioral goal setting and follow-up).

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

The course focuses on performance of systematic health assessment throughout the lifespan, leading to a growing ability to differentiate between normal and abnormal findings. Students will identify and acknowledge the impact of stressors that arise from physical, social, developmental, and occupational sources. The course will utilize simulation-based activities to support the application of health assessment concepts and skills.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

Advanced practice nursing learners will engage in hands-on simulated experience performing a variety of common primary care procedures. Some examples include reversible contraceptive methods, dermatology procedures, and orthopedic injections. Learners will gain knowledge of the indications, risks, benefits, and alternatives for different procedures, as well as patient management and follow-up care.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course is an immersive, interactive lab experience that provides PMHNP students with foundational skills for therapeutic relationship building and diagnostic interviewing. It introduces the student to self-reflective practice and principles of psychotherapeutic care. Students will learn techniques for establishing a therapeutic alliance with individuals across the lifespan. Using simulation techniques, students will develop skills in psychiatric interviewing and diagnostic reasoning.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course is the second of four interactive lab experiences in which PMHNP students learn and practice evidence-based interviewing and therapy techniques. Learners will utilize the relationship-centered communication framework in low-fidelity simulation activities to prepare for clinical training in a range of settings with individuals across the lifespan.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course is one of four interactive lab and workshop experiences for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) learners. It focuses on skillfully completing a full-length diagnostic interview, including rapport-building, gathering a full database, and treatment planning. This experience culminates in a high-fidelity simulation assessment followed by exercises to build growth-oriented self-reflective capacity.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course is a final interactive workshop experience guiding Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) learners in professional role development as they prepare to transition to independent clinical practice. Learners will focus on clinical decision-making, leadership, and professional identity development.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This skills lab course develops clinical skills to expand expertise in selected aspects of advanced practice nursing. Didactic evaluation along with guided clinical laboratory experiences and return demonstrations are designed to develop mastery of advanced physical assessment examination techniques and skills focusing on normal to identify abnormal.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

Guided learning activity to apply advanced practice nursing health assessment concepts and develop physical examination skills. Students perform systematic health assessment of adults with a focus on differentiating normal from abnormal findings.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course develops clinical skills to expand expertise in pediatric acute care advanced practice nursing. Didactic evaluation, guided clinical laboratory experiences, and return demonstrations are designed to develop mastery of advanced health assessment techniques and skills focusing on normal to identify abnormal variants in infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

This course provides specialty content related to advanced invasive procedures and psychomotor skills for the evaluation and management of patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness. Activities will occur through simulation and practice in the skills lab environment. Skills include, but are not limited to intubation, chest tube placement, and intravascular line placement.

Instructor(s): Staff

Instructor(s): Staff

The course is designed to equip the neonatal advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) student with the knowledge and practice opportunities necessary to perform common neonatal procedures in their clinical rotations