The primary focus of the course is the application of the nursing process to the care of adult clients with physiological need interferences. For mobility track students, three hours lecture and six clinical hours weekly. For generic track students, three hours lecture and an average of nine clinical hours weekly. This course provides the student with knowledge of the physiological and psychosocial-cultural processes involved in the uncomplicated pregnancy, as well as with need interferences during the antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and neonatal periods. The focus of the course is on utilization of the nursing process to meet basic human and developmental needs of clients and their support systems during the antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal and neonatal periods.
Emphasis is placed on teaching-learning interventions and the application of the nursing process.
Clinicals are held primarily in the hospital but the student is also introduced to a community setting. Four lecture and six clinical hours weekly for one half semester, offered twice each semester. The nursing process is utilized to individualize nursing care of the child based on human needs, need interferences, and growth and development. Focus is placed on nursing management of selected acute, chronic and terminal illnesses. Clinical practice is in the care of the child from infancy through adolescence primarily in the hospital, but students are also introduced to a community setting.