The course builds on prior learning to gain knowledge of disease processes of the biopsychosocial spiritual adult person within the health illness continuum. The emphasis will be placed on nursing care, utilizing the nursing process. Assessment will follow the system utilizing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Erikson's developmental stages to determine nursing diagnosis, plan, intervention, and evaluation of nursing care. Application of the teaching-learning process will be emphasized. This course provides supervised clinical experience in which the student applies theories in the care of the biopsychosocial spiritual adult client at various developmental levels.
Emphasis is placed on the role and responsibility of the practical nurse in the acute care setting.
This course builds on prior learning to gain knowledge of the childbearing family, developing child, and women's health. The focus is placed on the normal process of childbearing, the biopsychosocial spiritual family, the child through the developmental stages, common disorders associated with the childbearing process, children's and women's health. Emphasis is on health maintenance and selected study of diseases and disorders affecting women, children, and families. This course provides supervised clinical experience in which the student applies theories in the care of the biopsychosocial-spiritual childbearing families, women, infants, and children at various developmental levels. The student will apply the nursing process in providing holistic care to the childbearing family, woman, infant and child.