Maternity and Newborn Nursing

Catalog description

NUR120, NUR140, NUR160, NUR181, NUR191, NUR221, NUR231, NUR261 This course prepares the professional nurse to become a provider to childbearing families in diverse settings. The course covers concepts of the antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal periods. The clients' psychosocial, physiological, and cultural needs through the continuum of care are also presented. In applying the nursing process, critical thinking is reinforced in nursing care to neonates and their families within different settings. The course is structured to provide clinical application and evaluation in maternal and newborn nursing-related skills.