Nursing Process II

Catalog description

This first part of this course utilizes an integrated approach to further emphasize the skills, knowledge, and behaviors needed to care for clients in the areas of the childbearing family, newborn, and women's health. Topics will include normal and high-risk client care in the areas of the prenatal period, labor, and delivery, postpartum, and the newborn period. The emerging field of genetics, major genetic diseases, and the role nurses play are also incorporated. Lecture content also includes human reproduction, reproductive health, family planning, female cancers, and general women's health care. This course also provides lecture content for the age group involving the newborn through adolescence (pediatrics). The student will be provided with a longitudinal view of the child as an individual on a continuum of developmental changes and as a member of a family unit. There will be a discussion of social, cultural, and religious influences on child development and health promotion. Students will receive instruction on pediatric assessment, including interviewing skills, physical and behavioral observations, developmental levels, and preventive health care guidelines. Instruction will also include care of the child with cognitive and sensory impairment, chronic illness, serious body system diseases, and pain. Care of the hospitalized child, including pediatric clinical procedures, and home care guidelines are incorporated into the content. The second part of this course provides principles and concepts of mental health, psychopathology, and treatment modalities related to the nursing care of clients and their families. The focus of this course is on the psychosocial impact of wellness/illness problems of the adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations and the management and adaptation process. The course objectives will incorporate holism, human needs, growth and development, communications, safety, and wellness-illness across the life span for clients in these areas. Prerequisites: RNSG2119 Nursing Process I, RNSG2123 Nursing Practicum I. Corequisite: RNSG2413 Nursing Practicum II (8 hour/week lecture).