Family Nursing I

Catalog description

This course focuses on the role of the LPN in supporting expected outcomes and wellness needs of individuals in the child-bearing and child-rearing years. Application of physiologic integrity, psychosocial integrity, and health promotion/maintenance concepts in these specialized populations are presented. The intermediate nursing process provides the framework to build on critical thinking and integrating theory with care of clients and families in maternal/pediatric nursing. Topics include the pregnancy process, concepts of maternal and child nursing as it relates to the health and wellness for the ante-partum, intra-partum, post-partum, newborn, and routine care of the pediatric patient. This course includes a didactic and a clinical component.