RNSG 2115 Family Nursing Concepts
Family Nursing Concepts is designed to prepare the student to care for childbearing women, infants, children, families, and women with issues related to the reproductive system. The course includes classroom teaching, nursing laboratory practice skills, and clinical learning experiences. It continues to build upon knowledge and skills learned in previous nursing courses. The course focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in healthy women and children as well as nursing care for selected conditions that arise during pregnancy, birth and childhood. The application of the nursing process, caring and evidenced-based clinical reasoning in the care of the child bearing family will be emphasized. This will also include commonly occurring pediatric illnesses. Pharmacological management of the identified stressors will also be addressed throughout the course. Clinically, students will care for individuals, families and groups of patients from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds in hospitals and community-based settings. The role of the professional nurse as caregiver, manager of care, educator, patient advocate, and member of the profession will be explored while providing holistic care.
6 credits