Description
This course focuses on the nursing care and health promotion for maternal-newborn and pediatric clients and families in the acute care and community settings. Students will learn to utilize family theories and assessment tools when providing culturally sensitive, client-centered care.
Prerequisites
“C” or higher in NURS 230. Approval of instructor.
Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs)
- Apply the ANA Code of Ethics to care of families including client rights, dilemmas between individual rights and the common good, and identification of choices and possible consequences.
- Reflect on nursing practice in managing care for groups of patients.
- Seek information to develop plans of nursing care that are family-centered, as well as age- and culturally-appropriate using evidence-based clinical guidelines.
- Apply basic leadership skills in the care of families.
- Practice as a member of a multi-disciplinary health care team.
- Recognize the benefits and limitations of community and governmental support for family units and individual members with illness.
- Deliver family-centered care.
- Demonstrate therapeutic communications skills in interactions and relationships with families, individuals, and other members of the health care team with attention to the identification and correction of non-therapeutic communication techniques.
- Work with the client to implement plans of care that are based on culturally- and age-appropriate assessments and evidence-based practice.