NURS 5400 Operational Readiness: Dive Medicine and Water Rescue
This course supplements the "core" operational readiness content taught to all Graduate School of Nursing Advanced Practice students. Students completing the Dive Medicine operational readiness elective, receive readiness content that is aligned with Federal and/or Military Health System needs and which expands their clinical skills. The opportunity teaches skills related to water rescue, high angle extraction from the aquatic environment, underwater operations, hyperbaric medicine, and first aid in an austere aquatic environment and generalized self-awareness of stressors associated with functioning in an austere environment.