Teaching and practice of nursing skills and concepts in nursing laboratory. Laboratory experiences include care of the pediatric patient, team medications, care of patient receiving intravenous therapy, nasogastric intubation, gavage, gastric and GI decompression, and isolation. Six clinical laboratory hours per week. Students plan, administer, and evaluate nursing care to patients in pediatric, geriatric, medical and surgical units. Twelve clinical laboratory hours per week.
Students plan, administer, and evaluate nursing care to selected psychiatric patients.
Various treatment centers in St. Charles County and St. Louis area utilized for 36 clinical laboratory hours of observation and participation. Culminating course experience for the Nursing Program. Considers individual as part of family unit. Presents development of sexual roles and considers physical, psychosocial, and ethnocultural stressors that influence it. Examines adaptive and maladaptive responses of mother, neonate, and other family members to pregnancy and birth process.