Maternal-Newborn Nursing

Catalog description

This course focuses on providing the student with the theoretical knowledge and clinical experiences needed to provide care to the childbearing family. Concepts learned in previous courses will be built upon as the students design plans of care based upon theoretical and empirical knowledge of normal and selected abnormal patterns of biophysical and psychosocial growth and development of the pregnant woman, fetus, newborn and family. Political, cultural, economic and ethical issues related to the childbearing family will be explored. Clinical experiences take place in a variety of settings.