Maternal-Child Nursing RNSG 1002

This course prepares students to provide care to obstetric, newborn, and pediatric patients. Emphasis is placed on using the nursing process and critical thinking skills in the development, and implementation of a plan of care for obstetric, newborn, and pediatric patients. Family structures, psychosocial and cultural influences on childbearing and newborn families educational needs assessment of the obstetric and newborn patients, pregnancy and child birth, high risk pregnancies and deliveries, and conditions present in the newborn at birth are discussed. The educational needs of childrearing families, assessment of the pediatric patient, psychosocial and cultural influences on childbearing families, growth and development, and alterations in health of the pediatric patient are also discussed. Concepts related to physiologic integrity, psychosocial integrity, health promotion, and safety and infection control are integrated with the course. Supervised inpatient and outpatient clinical rotations will provide the opportunities for the students to achieve the course competencies. This course provides opportunities for the student to acquire an adequate knowledge utilizing knowledge from the biophysical sciences, humanities, growth and development, problem solving abilities and the nursing process. The impact of psychosocial and cultural values and practices of the childbearing family are explored.

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