Management of Child & Adolescent Health Credits: 4

Catalog description

This course focuses on the application of the nursing process in the care of the pediatric client. Emphasis is placed on providing developmentally appropriate care to healthy, acutely ill and chronically ill pediatric clients holistically within the context of a family system. Key concepts to be explored include age appropriate anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology and their application to the nursing strategies of health assessment, health promotion, disease prevention, pain management, family-centered and culturally sensitive care.