PROF NURSING PRACTICE:WOMEN & CHILD

This course provides the student with the opportunity to integrate nursing and developmental theories to emphasize family-centered care of pregnant women, newborns, and children. Pertinent physiological, developmental, and sociocultural concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention will be addressed. Nursing care of women through antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum periods and the newborn’s adaptation to extra-uterine life will be emphasized. In addition, nursing care of the pediatric patient from infancy through adolescence will be addressed with attention to the following concepts: growth and development, effects of hospitalization, and common acute and chronic disorders. The 90-hour clinical experience provides the student with an opportunity to apply the course’s theoretical concepts and implement safe family-centered care to mothers, newborns, and children in selected settings.