Also discussed are policy, politics, and health care financing for midwifery practice. The role of nurse midwifery practice with a systematic introduction to health and health needs of the adult woman from culturally diverse populations with a particular emphasis on the reproductive systems. Building on select nursing models, students are introduced to the nurse-midwifery management process, including assessment, diagnosis, management, intervention, evaluation, collaboration, and referral. Clinical experience focuses on assessment of health needs of women in such clinical settings as family planning, student health service, and midwifery practices of various types. Open to special students by permission of instructor on a course-available basis.
Research serves as a basis for educational, clinical, and organizational decision making.
The utilization of nursing research includes the evaluation of research, problem identification within the practice setting, awareness of practice outcomes, and the application of research in the practice. This course expands the student's understanding of the research process and provides an opportunity for identification of a research problem within a practice setting. Open to special students by permission of instructor. The course examines the historical development and various formulations of crisis theory and application. Crisis is viewed from the perspective of the patterning of human and environmental fields and from the process of change and growth.