Overview
NURS 526: NP: Adult Health is part of the Master of Nursing: Nurse Practitioner (MN-NP) degree and the Post-Masters Diploma: Nurse Practitioner (PMD-NP) program.
In NURS 526, you will learn to provide health care to adults, including screening and wellness counseling for healthy adults, the management of common acute and chronic conditions, and the recognition and management of emergent presentations.
Outline
NURS 526 is a paced course delivered over 13 weeks using a blended learning approach that combines asynchronous online learning and regular synchronous virtual sessions.
Course content focuses on the development of competencies required for the assessment and management of adult health conditions. Emphasis is placed on the following:
- Health promotion, disease prevention, and screening in adult populations
- Assessment and management of common acute and chronic conditions across body systems
- Clinical reasoning and decision-making in adult health care
- Consideration of patient context, including comorbidities and factors influencing health outcomes
- Recognition and initial management of emergent presentations
- Care coordination and appropriate referral to support continuity of care
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, you will be able to
- Identify and utilize current recommendations for preventative screening in the adult population;
- Provide evidence-based clinical services to well adults and to those presenting with common acute and chronic health concerns, at a level appropriate to a beginning practitioner, including:
- health history and physical examination
- clinical decision-making
- ordering laboratory and diagnostic tests
- prescribing medication and treatments
- administering treatments or procedures
- therapeutic communications
- collaborative relationships
- documentation of clinical data, diagnoses, collaborations, communications and treatments, monitoring and follow-up;
- Identify and respond appropriately to adult presentations of emergencies in clinical care settings;
- Articulate, promote and demonstrate evidence-based health promotion and illness prevention strategies along the health-illness continuum;
- Facilitate appropriate referral and care coordination for adults with health concerns that exceed the scope of nurse practitioner practice.
Evaluation
Assessment in NURS 526 consists of multiple course activities with assigned percentage weightings. Your final grade is based on overall performance across all required assessments. A variety of assessment approaches are used to evaluate achievement of the course learning outcomes.
| Activity | Weight |
| Participation activities | 10% |
| Assessments | 40% |
| Exams | 50% |
| Total | 100% |
Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Buttaro, T. M., Polgar-Bailey, P., Sandberg-Cook, J., Dick, K., & Montgomery, J. B. (2025). Primary care: Interprofessional collaborative practice (7th ed.). Elsevier.
Recommended Resources
Cash, J. C., Fraser, D., Corcoran, L., & Edwards, M. (2025). Canadian family practice guidelines (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing. ISBN: 978-0826192257
Rao, L. V., & Snyder, L. M. (2020). Wallach's interpretation of diagnostic tests (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 978-1975105587 Also available in e-book and mobile formats.
(Recommended texts; not provided within the course)