NUR 4448Nrsg Care of Child & Family Le

Catalog

This course focuses on the nursing management of children and their families. Emphasis is on the growth and developmental tasks as well as health and illness of children from infancy to adolescence. Consideration is also given to theories underlying the delivery of nursing care including Maslow, Piaget, and relevant nursing theorists such as Leininger and Rogers. Using the Nursing Process, students provide nursing care to children and their families in a variety of inpatient and community settings. Technology is used to provide and document nursing care in each setting. Students learn about the management of children and their families in various clinical settings such as clinics, hospitals, shelters, school, day care, and in the home. Students learn how to care for the pregnant and post-partum women, the neonate, the growing child, adolescent and adult, Students must take the lecture and clinical courses together and successfully complete both courses to progress.