Pediatric Nursing

Catalog description

In this course, students learn to apply the nursing process, therapeutic communication, and critical thinking in the holistic care of infants, children, adolescents, and their families. Client teaching and collaboration between the nurse and the client and family members are emphasized, as is utilizing the nursing process to identify and prioritize the health care needs of clients with increasingly less predictable outcomes or who demonstrate a change in their health status. Concepts pertaining to working as a member of an interdisciplinary healthcare team are incorporated. Also covered is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in the role of the nurse as a provider of care, member within the discipline and manager of care within the scope of nursing practice.