This course provides the competencies for advanced practice in the diagnosis and

management of adult patients in acute care. The curse reviews the acute and chronic

disorders of adult patients, with an emphasis on understanding alteration in the

shock, renal and genitourinary disorders, hematology, trauma, musculoskeletal,

otorhinolaryngology, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted.

After completing the theoretical and clinical courses of diagnosis and collaborative management in critical care for adults, the student will rotate thorough all critical care units to advance as an independent nurse practitioner thorough a structured, professional transition-into practice experience.  The student will assess, coordinate, treat, and evaluate patients in the hospital critical settings in close collaboration with a medical doctor who serve as preceptor. 

In this section you will find information on how to use Moodle and how to get help.

This course provides students the foundations of advanced practices for critically ill adult patients.  The content is designed to enhance knowledge as an advanced practice nurse to provide professional and patient-centered nursing care to critically ill patients.  The course allow nurses to master the critical care procedures, intervention, monitoring and pharmacological conceptions required when managing critically ill patients.

The course provides the advanced practice student with content focused on psychodynamic theories, scientific research, and evidence-based practice. It focuses on clinical decision making in patients with mental health problems.  Integrates psychopharmacological, psychotherapy, complementary and alterative medicine throughout the stages of development and growth. It integrates the basis of new diagnostic and treatment manual classification, genetic testing, and the increases used of mental health service delivery.  Students in advanced practice will gain new insights into possible diagnoses when determining treatment for patients with mental health disorders. 

This course provides the competencies for advanced practice in the diagnosis and management of adult patients in acute care. The course reviews the acute and chronic disorders of adult patients, with an emphasis on understanding alteration in the neurologic disorders, immunologic, musculoskeletal, gastrotomy, endocrine disorders. 

This course provides the competencies for advanced practice in diagnosis and management in critical care setting for the adult patient.  The course reviews acute and chronic disorders of the adult patient, with emphasis on understanding pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurologic, and hematology alterations.  The course leads to understand the alterations and differentiating signs and symptoms to formulate possible diagnoses and determining the effect of illness on a diverse population. 

This course emphasis on advanced pathophysiological processes across the lifspan, incorporating use of clinical reasoning skills to distinguish alterations across multiple physiological systems.  Students will understand the theoretical basis of pathogen and transmission characteristic interactions.

Students will comprehend the practice of epidemiology as it relates to real life and makes for a better appreciation of public health programs and policies. 

Course Objectives: 

 Describe and understand the main epidemiological characteristics of the major infectious diseases of Humans.

  Acquire an advanced understanding of host defense mechanisms and immune responses in relation to infectious diseases 

 Understand of impact of infectious diseases on populations and communities. 

 Recognize how epidemiological characteristics can be applied to develop and evaluate strategies to prevent epidemics or endemic transmission of the major infections of humans.

En esta área va a encontrar información relevante y práctica de como utilizar la plataforma Moodle y la herramienta BigBlueButton. La unidad de Moodle  contiene información relevante cómo lo es gestionar el registro de calificaciones y describe cada uno de los distintos recursos didácticos  y la manera de aplicarlos. En cuanto a la unidad de BigBlueButton, tiene información de cómo utilizar esta herramienta para la creación de reuniones virtuales y las grabaciones que se crean luego de finalizada las reuniones virtuales. Espero que esta información le sea de utilidad para sus cursos.

In this area, you will find relevant and practical information on how to use the Moodle platform and the BigBlueButton tool. The Moodle unit contains relevant information such as how to manage the grade record and describes each of the different didactic resources and how to apply them. As for the BigBlueButton unit, it has information on how to use this tool for creating virtual meetings and the recordings that are created after the virtual meetings are over. I hope you find this information useful for your courses.

El propósito de la Biblioteca Virtual del Centro de Recursos Académicos e  Investigación es brindar una amplia oferta de recursos para la investigación, la docencia y el conocimiento. Mediante el acceso a bases de datos de e-journals, libros digitales, y entre otros, podrás acceder a recursos de información que te ayudarán para que puedas hallar información valiosa que te servirá para realizar sus tareas o necesidad de información. Asimismo, aquí encontrarás un espacio para que puedas optimizar o desarrollar las competencias del manejo de la información.

This course focus on advanced pathophysiology processes across the lifespan, incorporating use of clinical reasoning skills to distinguish alterations across multiple physiological systems.

This course prepare nurse practitioners to accurately describe, administer, and counsel patients regarding appropriate and safe medication regimens.  The course emphasizes on the clinical application of advanced pharmacology for common disease conditions encountered in primary care settings. It discusses principles and actions of pharmacology relative to physiologic systems, with emphasis on the application of these agents.

The course focus on real use, documentation of medical record, and utilization of an electronic medical record that automate the activities of healthcare services as it applies to physicians, nurses, healthcare technicians, and administrative staff. The course comprise of readings, case studies, case studies, and hands-on labs to learn the functionality and processes to follow within the electronic medical record.