Physical assessment skills are expanded in this course to incorporate infants and children. Students apply course content through client care in an acute pediatric setting, ambulatory care settings, and community based child care centers. Community based family experiences are also provided. Critical thinking is met within this course through application of the nursing process with clients having mental health problems or psychiatric illnesses. Utilizing the nursing process, students define client nursing care problems, analyze data, and plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic nursing care interventions for individuals and families.
Content begins with personal self-awareness.
A psychiatric nurse liaison experience in a hospital rehabilitation setting is also included. Emphasis is placed on assisting clients to recognize their own actual or potential problems and to take action to promote the clients physical, emotional, environmental, spiritual and cultural health. NUR 300 and other prescribed courses in the catalog. The course is presented concurrently with NUR 360 or NUR 370 the second semester of the junior year and continues the course content of NUR 300. This course describes the concepts of communication, leadership process, decision making process, change theory, culture, ethics and family nutrition.