The focus is on the use of the nursing process to assist clients to prevent illness, promote, maintain, or restore health. Clinical experiences take place in a variety of settings. A core course utilizing the concept of family-centered nursing care to teach basic nursing strategies that enable children and their families to prevent illness and disability and promote, protect and restore health. Clinical placement occurs in a variety of settings. The course is organized around the concepts of health and wellness as well as recognition of complications and risk factors occurring during the reproductive period.
Clinical placement includes hospital and community settings.
An interprofessional course required of all undergraduate and second degree students. Focuses on the process of development as a lifelong activity, balanced between dynamic and stable demands of physical and social environments, and the changing capabilities of the person. Contemporary life styles and selected cultural aspects of individual and family life will be explored. General principles of pharmacology and the therapeutic implications of major drug categories are presented. Mechanisms of drug action, side effects of drugs, and the implications for nursing management are included.