Additionally, students learn to provide care for the normal and high risk newborn. Nursing care skills are developed in relation to the developmental stages for the perinatal patient and family. Clinical experiences include antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and neonatal care settings. Utilization of the nursing process and theories of growth and development as a framework for providing nursing care and fostering health promotion for infants, children, and adolescents and their families. Focus on normal growth and maturation and on acute and chronic alterations of health and development.
Clinical experience includes care of children from birth through adolescence.
Students are required to demonstrate competence in performance of psychomotor skills and critical thinking in the clinical and classroom setting. NURS 255 is usually taken concurrently. Psychodynamics of the major mental illnesses and the principles of psychiatric nursing. Emphasis is placed on application of the nursing process utilizing nursing principles to care for inpatients at all developmental levels. Students adapt their communication skills to facilitate therapeutic interventions with patients experiencing mental illness.