NU 607 Primary Care for Women: the FNP women's health rotation

Scope of the course in plain terms

The catalog describes NU 607 as "well woman care and care of the antepartum woman", for patients from adolescence through the menopause transition. Named topics include cervical and breast cancer screening, contraceptive care, gynecologic pathologies and healthy prenatal examinations. It carries 4 credits and 90 clinical hours, and its prerequisites match those of NU 606: NU 501, NU 530, NU 603, NU 550, NU 566, NU 551, NU 552 and NU 561.

Translated into clinic days, your hours should include annual exams, follow-up of abnormal screening results, contraceptive counseling and visits with healthy pregnant patients. A service limited to one of these, such as a high-risk obstetric clinic or a fertility practice, covers only part of what the course describes.

The prenatal content is framed around healthy pregnancies, so routine prenatal visits in a primary care or women's health office match the course better than complicated pregnancies do. The FNP clinical hours page shows where these 90 hours sit in the 540.

Site checklist for NU 607

Before you send a women's health preceptor to your academic advisor, run the site against this list.

• The preceptor is an MD, DO, PA or APRN licensed in your state of practice, board certified if a physician or APRN.
• The preceptor has at least a year of primary care experience; women's health is one of the three areas the portal names.
• The schedule includes well-woman visits, cervical and breast cancer screening and contraceptive care, not a single service line.
• Healthy prenatal visits are part of the schedule, since the catalog names them.
• Women's Health can go on the FNP Contract Request Form as the site's primary population.
• The preceptor is not a family member or close friend; the form asks you to confirm it.
• The site is outside New York, and you hold an RN license in the state where it sits.
• You know whether the site already has an affiliation agreement with Sacred Heart.

The complete credential rules are on preceptor requirements, and each field of the form is explained on the Contract Request Form page.

Timing: 16 weeks, week 10 and the hand-off to NU 621

Sacred Heart's certificate catalog pages give NP courses 16 weeks, while the SHU Online FAQ speaks of a 15-week semester; the registrar's calendar for your term is the working reference. Inside that window, week 10 is when the site and preceptor for your next clinical course must be identified, approved by your advisor and submitted. If NU 607 is your second 90-hour course, that next placement is NU 621, the 180-hour final course that also holds the closing residency. The week-10 deadline page has the full rule.

What NU 607 passes to NU 621 is the women's health piece of family care. NU 621 treats complex adult families and their members and lists NU 607 as a prerequisite, so the screening, contraception and prenatal judgment you practice here comes back in that course.