Nursing Care for Women / Maternity

Catalog description

This course builds on the concepts of previous nursing courses with emphasis on utilizing the nursing process in dealing with women’s health, maternity, and newborn’s health. It provides the student with knowledge of the reproductive system and the health care needs of women throughout the childbearing life cycle. This course provides learning experience in providing care to the childbearing and childrearing family in a variety of settings. It focuses on the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of care on clients of childbearing age. Students will learn how to develop a plan of care utilizing the nursing process, and reinforce previously learned concepts on therapeutic communication, delegation and prioritization, clinical decision making, problem solving, interpersonal and collaborative skills. Other essential concepts such as developmental stages, safety, legal and ethical issues, current technology, nutritional and pharmacological needs, and biological, social and behavioral sciences will be discussed.