NRS 532 - Nursing Care for Women, Children and Families

3 Hour(s)

This course is a hybrid course for the MSN-DE student. The course focuses on the specialized health care needs of the childbearing and childrearing family. The health responses of the family unit are emphasized as essential to the promotion and maintenance of health of the mother, newborn, child and adolescent. Students develop the necessary knowledge base to provide developmentally and culturally competent care and teaching for pregnancy, delivery and newborn nursing. The course also provides the necessary knowledge base to maintain optimal health in the pediatric population with acute and/or chronic illness through the promotion of wellness behaviors in the child and family. This course also prepares the MSN-DE student to consider the socioeconomic impact on maternal and pediatric health.

SP
Prerequisite(s): NRS 504 , NRS 523 , NRS 523L & NRS 524