Child and Adolescent Care

Catalog description

Co-requisite: NUR 2306 This course is designed to study the different stages of growth and development of the child and adolescent. Emphasis is placed on the nursing care process to help alleviate or maintain health in the personal, interpersonal, and/or social well -being of the pediatric client. Cognitive, social and moral theories related to the normal growth of the child and adolescent are studied. Parent’s involvement in child care and prevention of child abuse is emphasized.