Develops competency in using the nursing process to help the child (birth through adolescence) and child-bearing family achieve self-care goals, apply scientific principles, concepts, and factors related to the child and the family as a self-care agent. Integrates current issues, trends, legal and ethical accountability, and the promotion of quality care into nursing practice. Student spends five weeks in a pediatric setting and five weeks in an obstetrical setting.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Systems Theory, Self-Care Concepts, and the Child Bearing Family.
- The Neonatal Period.
- The Antepartal Period.
- The Intrapartal Period.
- The Postpartal Period.
- Nursing Care of Child-Bearing Families Experiencing Complications.
- Trends and issues in the health care delivery system for children and the child bearing family.
- Concepts of the pediatric population, growth and development, communication, legal and ethnical.
- Safety principles for the pediatric population.
- Nursing care of children with self-care deficits of air, circulation and tissue perfusion, nutrition deficit, and elimination deficts.
- Uses the Self-Care Deficit Theory as the nursing framework in the care of patients with normal and complex health care needs for the child and child-bearing family.
- Uses the Nursing Process to systematically guide decision making regarding patient care.*
- Incorporates ANA standards of professional nursing practice to implement a nursing plan of care for the child and child-bearing family.
- Relates biopsychosociocultural, developmental, and ecological principles to the patient as a self-care agent throughout life stages.
- Uses principles of changeand learning theory to facilitate positive change when managing a group of patients.
- Demonstrates responsibility for use of critical thinking in decision-making when managing multidimensional situations.*
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with patients, significant others, and health care providers when delivering care to a group of patients.
- Discusses the impact of economic, political, social/global forces on quality care and the health care delivery system.
- Complies with legal, ethical behaviors, and professional guidelines when managing patient care.
- Interprets culturally competent care when managing nursing care for the child and child-bearing client.
- Differenciates caring behaviors for the child, child-bearing family, and the health care team.
Old nursing curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
1. Theory grade of 80% or better
2. Satisfactory clinical performance
3. 90% or better on Math competency exam
Course Grading Scale:
A = 92 - 100%
B = 85 - 91.999%
C = 80 - 84.999%
D = 73 - 79.999%
E = Below 73%
Course Clinical Scale:
S = Satisfactory and U = Unsatisfactory