These students will explore specific health care problems impacting upon women and will analyze contextual factors that affect the delivery of health care to women. Offered As Needed. This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform a health assessment on an adult and child. This assessment knowledge and skill is utilized as a data base for making a nursing diagnosis. The student must project a plan of care including implementation and evaluation.
Emphasis is placed on documentation of normal findings.
Lecture, three hours. Offered Each Semester. Through a nursing process approach, the course stresses pharmacological principles that will aid the nurse in the administration of medications. The course is designed for the nurse who already has a basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Problem-solving sessions throughout the course focus on therapeutic usages and monitoring of each of the classes of agents.